Stephen, I agree but like I told Bryan I was looking at this from a moral viewpoint, not a legal view.

I do know that when Confederate pensions were starting to be given my 2nd great-grandmother, Lovey Taylor Roberts was drawing a pension for her husband's service in the war of 1812. She lost a son in the WBTS and had a son who drew a Confederate pension. Somehow or other it is coming to light recently that she had a niece who married the son of a Jayhawker who was supposedly quite the scalawag during reconstruction. Her father-in-law had fought for Francis Marion during the Revolution and in Col. Gabriel Powell's expedition during the French-Indian War. Yet her father was an Indian.

Can everybody now see why my opinions should be as clear as mud ROFL!!!