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Veterans benefit budget ...April Fools Day
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 9:38 pm
by Niner
April Fools Day a hundred years go. I don't think they were fooling. The more veterans of an actual war that died the smaller the budget in those days. Little did they know that WWI was just around the corner.
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/ ... d-1/seq-1/
Re: Veterans benefit budget ...April Fools Day
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 10:14 pm
by Niner Delta
Was the pension only given to Union soldiers or did it include the Southerners?????
Just wonder if the Union was that forgiving, kind of doubt it...........
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Re: Veterans benefit budget ...April Fools Day
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 10:33 pm
by Niner
No Federal pensions for Rebels. However , the former Confederate states did offer pensions.
https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/ ... on_Records
Re: Veterans benefit budget ...April Fools Day
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 6:22 pm
by Niner Delta
Of my Dad's 2 grandfathers, one fought for North (Iowa) and other for South (South Carolina),
but no idea if either got a pension.
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