Confederate Soldiers are American Veterans by Act of Congress

Veterans Today ^ | April 14, 2011 | By Jim W. Dean, Managing Editor

[Mariner]

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Congressional Appropriations Act, FY 1901, signed 6 June 1900

Congress passed an act of appropriations for $2,500 that enabled the “Secretary of War to have reburied in some suitable spot in the national cemetery at Arlington, Virginia, and to place proper headstones at their graves, the bodies of about 128 Confederate soldiers now buried in the National Soldiers Home near Washington, D.C., and the bodies of about 136 Confederate soldiers now buried in the national cemetery at Arlington, Virginia.”

Remarks: More important than the amount (worth substantially more in 1900 than in 2000) is the move to support reconciliation by Congressional act. In 1906, Confederate Battle flags were ordered to be returned to the states from whence they originated. Some states refused to return the flags. Wisconsin still has at least one flag it refuses to return.

Congressional Act of 9 March 1906

We Honor Our Fallen Ancestors

(P.L. 38, 59th Congress, Chap. 631-34 Stat. 56)

Authorized the furnishing of headstones for the graves of Confederates who died, primarily in Union prison camps and were buried in Federal cemeteries.

Remarks: This act formally reaffirmed Confederate soldiers as military combatants with legal standing. It granted recognition to deceased Confederate soldiers commensurate with the status of deceased Union soldiers.

[Editor’s Note: I might also add here that the opening ceremonies off every Sons of Confederate Veterans Reunion always include a welcoming address by the commander of the Grand Army of the Republic descendent organization…jim dean]

U.S. Public Law 810, Approved by 17th Congress 26 February 1929

(45 Stat 1307 – Currently on the books as 38 U.S. Code, Sec. 2306)

This law, passed by the U.S. Congress, authorized the “Secretary of War to erect headstones over the graves of soldiers who served in the Confederate Army and to direct him to...

[CIB-173RDABN]

The same as Revolutionary Soldiers were British until the war was over, then they became Americans.

[DaveA37]

Maybe that too will be protested.

[DoodleDawg]

And furthermore, it was common for survivors of confederate veterans to receive benefits from the US government after the war.

Not until the 1950s. Before that it was up to the individual Southern states to see to needs of Confederate veterans.

[Paal Gulli]

And some of these Confederate veterans were ...


... wait for it ...





... black.

[miss marmelstein]

That’s what I mean, Liz!

[zipper]

Not until the 1950s. Before that it was up to the individual Southern states to see to needs of Confederate veterans.

The form for application for a grave marker is a War Department form 628. Dated 1939. I have a copy of the original form. Obviously a federal form, and before 1950's.

Anyway I'm not disputing that there was additional recognition in the 50's. But they were veterans whose families obviously received certain benefits long before that. The yankees were not that mean.

[rdl6989]

Very interesting, thanks for posting.

[snarkytart]

They’re not just pandering they’re promoting violence and totalitarianism. Trying to stop politician free speech with violence is being promoted by your friends. It’s beyond just pandering at this point.

You’re just a troll.

[Tennessee Nana]

At Lundy’s Lane in the cemetery with American Loyalists and 1812 Canadians, there are the graves containing Americans with the tombstones indicating “Unknown American” and the year...

Enemies lying side by side...

The American soldiers treated with respect and buried along with the home boys...

The first time I saw the graves I thought how nice to do that..but then that’s how people acted 200 years ago..

What happened to people since ???

[WVMnteer]

I think your talking about different things.

I honestly don’t know how the pensions were handled. Alberta Martin who was featured in Confederates in the Attic died in 2004. She starting getting a widows’ pension from the State of Alabama in the 90s, when the state realized there was still a widow out there.

As of 2013, two children of civil war vets were still receiving benefits from the VA.

https://www.usnews.com/news/newsgram/articles/2013/07/03/one-civil-war-veterans-pension-remains-on-governments-payroll

I have no idea how graves for veterans were handled.

[Tennessee Nana]

Exactly thats the whole point...

so that nobody would ever doubt they were...

its official...

Theyre as much American veterans as I am ...my war was Vietnam and I was on the side of the legitimate government of the United States...

Theyre the “glorious dead” of the South, but they are also American veterans...

[Parmy]

Ping

[Sergio]

bkmk

[Magnum44]

I agree with your post, but wrt your comment:

because they’re going to stand up and fight veterans now?

Sadly, as compared to post WWII, today veterans make up such a small percentage of the population, the gimme-dats of today really don't care about vets.

[ManHunter]

Yep, and there are a few monuments to black confederate soldiers in the South. Will they be torn down too...?

[Big Red Badger]

Good Point!

[GreyFriar]

ping for self

[AustinBill]

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

The sad truth is that few of the modern would-be iconoclasts could recognize, let alone place, these words.

[exit82]

Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865.

[Edward.Fish]

>> The only way they could be considered “NOT” American veterans would be if they won the war and successfully became another country. But they lost, so they were always a part of the US.
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> They fought against the U.S. and not for it. They were not granted U.S. veteran status until the mid-1950s.

So, why weren't confederate officers prosecuted for Treason?
(Because if they were, all one would have to do is point out that if the Confederate States could not have left the Union then the Union waging war was upon the states… thus matching the literal Constitutional definition of Treason.)