Jim

No offense was in any way taken. I suspect I project dates predicated on the S. C. pension program, which got off to a much later start, in large measure due to the fact that S.C. did not get rid of the Reconstruction government until 1877 (voted out in November 1876, but the Radicals refused to give up the State House until April or May), and they did nothing to aid or assist the diaabled Confederate veterans. Georgia voted out the Radicals in 1868.

Just as Georgia did, the first S. C. program was to purchase articial limbs for amputeesa -- not a pension program as such. The first one for totally disabled or indigent vets did not come until ca 1884, in South Carolina.