[Nfb-history] Civil War Pensions

[Peggy Chong]

Hello:

 

While researching a blind man in Nebraska, I ran across a pension list he
was listed in.  He was a blinded vet of the Civil War.  Most of the Civil
War pensioners were receiving between $4 and $19 a month from the Federal
Government.  One had a pension as high as $23.  But our blinded vet had a
pension of $75 a month.  HE was the only blind guy in the bunch.  I guess it
was better financially to be blinded in the Civil War than it was to loose a
leg or arm.  

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