The law does not say that they are to be considered U.S. Military Veterans. The law refers to them as “Confederate Forces Veterans”
The issue is odd, because at that time in 1958, all of the Confederate veterans were dead. Last dying in 1951.
"The law says, from your quote:"
"SEC. 410. The Administrator shall pay to each person who served in the military or naval forces of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War a monthly pension in the same amounts and subject to the same conditions as would have been applicable to such. person under the laws in effect on December 31, 1957, if his service in such forces had been service in the military or naval service of the United States."
The bill implies those who served in in the "Confederate Forces" were in fact serving in the military or naval service of the United States.
Mr. Kalamata