It had to be that way. The Confederate soldiers got all their public aid from the States.

In some communities, at least a third of the veterans lacked a limb. Mississippi spent, in 1866, a fifth of her revenues on artificial arms and legs," wrote Coulter E. Merton in The South During Reconstruction.

Back to the article. The author repeatedly references Civil War veterans without one time mentioning the severe Limitation; that only U.S. soldiers are included. To me, that indicates a bias, albeit probably a subconscious bias. All the author had to do was correct the title thusly "....Civil War Yankee Veterans".