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The Dependent and Disability Pension Act was passed by the United States Congress (26 Stat. 182) and signed into law by President Benjamin Harrison on June 27, 1890. The act provided pensions for all veterans who had served at least ninety days in the Union military or naval forces, were honorably discharged from service and were unable to perform manual labor, regardless of their financial ...
Archival record of the benefits awarded to injured soldiers and veterans of the American Civil War began after 1865. Union soldiers received a more committed pension archival effort on the part of the Federal government, thanks to superior databases in the North and a more stable bureaucratic oversight. [15] Turmoil during Reconstruction in the ...
Logue, Larry M., and Peter Blanck. "Benefit of the doubt: African-American Civil War veterans and pensions" Journal of Interdisciplinary History 38.3 (2008): 377-399. online; Logue, Larry M., and Peter Blanck. Race, ethnicity, and disability: Veterans and benefits in post-Civil War America (Cambridge University Press, 2010). McMurry, Donald L.
Irene Triplett – the 86-year-old daughter of a Civil War veteran – collects $73.13 each month from her father's military pension.
Triplett's father died in 1938 at the age of 92, after which she collected his Civil War pension of $73.13 per month from the Department of Veterans Affairs; [1] her cognitive impairments qualified her to inherit the pension as a helpless child of a veteran. [7] The total amount of benefits she received was about $73,000, or $344,000 when ...
Texas Civil War veterans received a pension check from Austin for $100 every month if they were unmarried, $150 if they were married. (Union veterans were pensioned by the U.S. Congress.)
The effects of World War I, which resulted in a new veteran population of over five million men and women, brought dramatic changes to the National Home and all other governmental agencies responsible for veterans' benefits. In 1930 the Veterans Administration was established, to consolidate all veterans' programs into a single Federal agency ...
The home's Feb. 22, 1886, dedication ceremonies included a parade from State Street to the facility led by U.S.S. Michigan sailors and marines and also including Civil War veterans' post ...