Daughter of Slave who Fought for Confederacy Dies

[Anita]

(10-19-2014 09:44 PM)Linda Anderson Wrote:  Thanks, Anita.

""It wasn't until the 1930s that confederate soldiers began receiving pensions from the federal government."

However, the article from archives.gov says that:

"Confederate veterans, who served in the military before the Civil War, or with the United States Army after their Confederate service, were eligible to receive pensions from the federal government."

So were the pensions that the confederate soldiers received from the federal government starting in the 1930s from wars other than the Civil War? If those pensions starting in the 1930s were in fact from serving in the Civil War, what happened that brought that change about?

Linda, I can find no source that says Confederate vets ever received a federal pension for service in the Civil War. It would make sense that they should be entitled to a pension for other Federal military service. The article in "US News & World Report" isn't clear.
The VA should be able to clarify.