In 2004, the last widow of a civil war veteran died. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/5106000/ns/us_news/t/last-widow-civil-war-veteran-dies/#.UUtlrLLOMkc
Craig On 03/21/2013 03:52 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > I read yesterday that two people in the U.S. are still receiving > disability pensions from the Civil War, 148 years after it ended. They > are both the children of Civil War veterans who were themselves > disabled their entire lives and unable to work. Probably, their > fathers died when they were very young. > > There are a few people left in their 80s who got pensions up until age > 18, after their Civil War veteran fathers died in the 1930s. > > See: > > http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ap-costs-us-wars-linger-over-100-years > > - Jed >
