Thanks Pam, I never even thought about young girls tending to wounded, or especially receiving a pension. I just ran across something the other day that got my attention. I read in a book about a boy that was born in 1852, which would have made him 9 at the beginning of the war, somewhere it mentions his service to the Confederacy, so I just took it as being a drummer. The pension part was not even mentioned, I was just curious. Now I do not even what book it was in, old age is not creeping up on me it is in a full run................