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The last American citizen receiving a Civil War pension has died in North Carolina at the age of 90. Irene Triplett, whose father fought for the Union Army between 1863 and 1865, passed away Sunday in Wilkesboro from complications following surgery. Irene suffered from from mental disabilities and therefore qualified for federal financial support as a 'helpless adult child of a veteran', according to The Washington Post. She received a monthly check of $73.13 from the Department of Veterans Affairs, which went towards expenses for the nursing home where she lived. Her father, Mose Triplett, was 83 years old when...

LANCASTER [California] - The sharp scent of gunpowder hung in the air with the smoke from a booming cannon shot as a lone trumpeter played the solemn notes of "Taps." This ceremony of remembrance played out twice Saturday afternoon at Lancaster Cemetery... The Civil War mourning ceremony, organized by Friends of the Lancaster Cemetery, honored all five veterans of that war - four Union soldiers and one Confederate - who are buried in the cemetery, but specifically two for whom new grave markers were dedicated. James Madison West was born in Ohio in 1843, and died in Lancaster on Oct....

With so many Civil War battlefields gone and forgotten, just how was Stones River saved? After all, the federal government protects only 15 percent of all significant Civil War battlefields. So how was Murfreesboro so fortunate? When it comes down to it, Civil War veterans and the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad saved the battlefield. Probably none of that would have happened if a national cemetery had been established elsewhere like Nashville or Franklin during the war. The Battle of Stones River was fought for control of the railroad and for the fertile land of Middle Tennessee, which could...

This Day In History | Civil War December 22 1864 Sherman presents Lincoln with a Christmas gift Union General William T. Sherman presents the city of Savannah, Georgia, to President Lincoln. Sherman captured Georgia's largest city after his famous "March to the Sea" from Atlanta. Savannah had been one of the last major ports that remained open to the Confederates. After Sherman captured Atlanta in September 1864, he did not plan to stay for long. There was still the Confederate army of General John Bell Hood in the area, and cavalry leaders like Nathan Bedford Forrest and Joe Wheeler, who...