Dear Linda,

Please excuse me using your first name since my attention span is about as long as my little finger, I have forgotten your last name. To answer your question.

The Pension for those who served in each state depended on rank. It was about 13 dollars for privates and more for officers. Per month and until death of both the vet. and his spouse. In fact on one apt. in Austin archives is this......such and such widow got 10.00 her first pension check due to a 3 dollar deduct for a lost bayonet cover that was on her husbands record of being lost during the Atlanta fighting. Once they got their pension they had it until death. Texas picked up the tab for other states that would pay Texas. Or at least that is my understanding. After the war, the first 60
% of the Ga. budget was for artificial limbs. And today the people of this country spit on these men. Shame on the nation.

bh