Last woman receiving a Civil War pension dies

[jon-nyc]

Ya Rly.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/06/04/she-was-last-american-collect-civil-war-pension-7313-month-she-just-died/?fbclid=IwAR3_cl3dtl2La35mznSXM53roys1PzP7flZLEHW3C3YopqS6PJwHWu5k7Xo&utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

[LuFins Dad]

$73.19 a month

[xenon]

Amazing.

[jon-nyc]

I had heard (incorrectly, so it seems) some years ago that the last pension was a widow that died in the late 20th century.

It was a similar deal where a very young girl married a veteran during the depression, you gotta figure for the pension.

[taiwan_girl]

Very cool story. I read a book a while back which was about somewhat of a controversy about the last living soldier from the US Civil War. Not a very good book, but the story by itself was interesting.

[Copper]

Every little bit helps to reduce the debt.

[89th]

Imagine the person in the Dept of VA who’s like “finally, I can close the Civil War account”

[Copper]

@89th said in Last woman receiving a Civil War pension dies:

Imagine the person Civil War Division of 375 people, in the Dept of VA who’s like “finally, I can close the Civil War account”