155 years after the US Civil War ended the last pensioner has died. An interesting tidbit with history and war is how long after it ends that the dollars are still flowing. It wasnt long ago the last Confederate widow died too (that pension was not from the govt I dont think but from a Confederate group). Those old vets often married young southern ladies as the ladies had no way to make money but the old men had a pension so they married them and still had kids.
The last Union widows died about two? decades ago and received pensions I believe. They often married the old men for the same reasons but not all of them. There is interesting reading on them if you search for them, both Union and Confederate widows, especially the Buffalo Soldier widow and one of the last Confederate ones who married her stepson after outliving her husband.
Anyway, a link to the last child dying, at least the last one getting a pension. Perhaps others are still alive and not getting that. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/0 ... 333830002/
