As a fringe to this topic, I'm currently reading
Gen Schofield's memoirs,
Forty-six Years in the Army, published in 1897.
He recommended himself for the award of the Congressional Medal of Honour!
The Wiki notes: The medal was recommended by Schofield himself when he was interim U.S. Secretary of War (1868–69). Historian Benson Bobrick is critical of this and notes the vagueness of the details in the citation.[3]