Daughter of Slave who Fought for Confederacy Dies

[Anita]

(10-20-2014 06:48 PM)Linda Anderson Wrote:  Anita, I found this article about Civil War Pensions.

"At the same time [1890] that pension requirements were becoming more liberal, several Southern congressmen attempted to open up the Federal system to Confederate veterans. Proponents justified such a move by noting that Southerners had contributed to Federal pensions through indirect taxes since the end of the war. These proposals met with mixed responses in both North and the South, but overwhelmingly, opposition came from those financially comfortable Confederate veterans and southern politicians who regarded such dependency on Federal assistance a dishonor t the Lost Cause. It should be noted that impoverished Southern veterans frequently were not averse to the prospect of receiving Federal pensions. In any event, no such law ever passed, and Confederate veterans and their widows never matriculated into the Federal pension system."

http://www.civilwarhome.com/pensions.html

Thanks Linda. My great great grandfather got a pension from the state of GA in 1890 after losing his left arm the first day of the Battle of the Crater at Petersburg. His name is Joshua Chapman.