The
American Civil War ended in 1865, but as of last September, the
Department of Veterans Affairs still pays out two pensions from that
conflict. Privacy rules prevent the release of the names or reasons for
the pensions, but it's likely that the recipients are the disabled
elderly children of veterans:
Department of Veteran
Affairs spokesman Phil Budahn says the VA last checked in on the
benefits recipients in the fall. Both were alive, but in poor health.
Budahn
says it's likely that the children of the Civil War veterans, who have
wished to remain anonymous, both had illnesses that prevented them from
ever becoming self-sufficient..
Trevor Plante, a reference chief
at the National Archives says it's also possible that the beneficiaries
were young when their fathers died and had no living mothers to care for
them, which would also qualify them for their fathers' pensions.
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