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Please let me fill in some of the material on compensation for RevWar vets.

They seem to position it here that the blacks were the only ones sent home with nothing--it is my understanding that essentially everyone was sent home with essentially nothing because they had nothing to give them. Land grants were eventually awarded, and became responsible for settling parts of Ohio and especially Indiana. Courts were set up to examine individual soldiers (or soldier's families) claims for compensation. I have never seen anything that pointed to black RevWar veterans treated worse than whites in this regard, but it could have been.

5 posted on 02/04/2006 2:20:50 PM PST by Pharmboy (The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
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I have copies of some of my ancestors pension applications paperwork and bounty land grants. It was my understanding that not all states offered land grants, and those that did offered land in the frontier. What I wouldn't give today for just a smidgen of that land...
8 posted on 02/04/2006 2:29:26 PM PST by voiceinthewind
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