[Hydroshock]

I once read in the mid 1980's that from May/December marriages that at teh time the VA was still paying pensions and benefits on about 90 to 100 Civil War (War of Northern Agression) veterans widows.

[elcid1970]

An old game. South Carolina's last pensioned War Between The States widow died in the 1990's. In the early 1920's as a girl of nineteen she married a Confederate veteran well into his eighties, solely for financial security. In her later years she was cherished as a living link to the War.

But an old (socialist) woman marrying a lad of 20? It's clearly her attempt to literally hand on her socialist safety net. A left-wing inheritance. Geez.....

[wideawake]

Up until a few years ago, each representative in the Italian Parliament was allowed to appoint an employee who would receive a salary for writing out veterans' benefits checks by hand to each veteran of the War of Reunification in that representative's district.

The war ended in 1870 and the last check was paid over 50 years ago.

Nice little jobs program.

[cyclotic]

Last I heard, there was still one Civil War (War of the rebellion) wife alive. THey thought the last one dies and someone else stepped forward last year.

[Tokra]

I once read in the mid 1980's that from May/December marriages that at teh time the VA was still paying pensions and benefits on about 90 to 100 Civil War (War of Northern AgressionSouthern Secession) veterans widows.

[fso301]

the VA was still paying pensions and benefits on about 90 to 100 Civil War (War of Northern Agression) veterans widows.

And still paying although to a much smaller group.

[Beckwith]

War of Northern Agression

It wasn't the Yankees that attacked Fort Sumter.