Daughter of Slave who Fought for Confederacy Dies

[Linda Anderson]

You're welcome, Anita. It's amazing to think that Mattie Clyburn Rice's father was born before Robert Lincoln, Fanny Seward & Lewis Powell.

Thanks, Bill, for all the references. Some of it is pretty shocking to me, like blacks in the Texas version of the KKK.

My husband was wondering about the pensions paid to the Confederate soldiers. How was it worked out that that they were able to receive pensions from the government they had fought against?