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Did Confederate soldiers get veterans benefits?
Posted on 8/20/17 at 1:08 pm
Posted on 8/20/17 at 1:08 pm
Did the Uniteded States recognize Confederate Soldiers as Veterans and give them full benefits? Did they get pensions? Kind of sucks to be tearing down statues to war veterans if so.
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Posted on 8/20/17 at 1:09 pm to highcotton2
Veterans confederate soldiers have always been considered American soldiers and atillbare today.
Posted on 8/20/17 at 1:09 pm to highcotton2
I beileve FDR made them US Veterans.
Posted on 8/20/17 at 1:13 pm to highcotton2
Yes. They were recognized as US Veterans. If you see a grave with a pointed marble tombstone. The US government furnished those for Confederate Soldiers. The tombstones furnished for Union soldiers are round on top. They did receive pensions but I believe that those came from the states. If I remember correctly, the pensions were fifty something dollars/ month.
Posted on 8/20/17 at 1:14 pm to SouthernHog
I think I read somewhere that young women would marry them so they could get their pensions after they died.
Posted on 8/20/17 at 1:15 pm to Errerrerrwere
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Veterans confederate soldiers have always been considered American soldiers and atillbare today.
No, they haven't. They were eventually given veteran status so that their dependents (widows) could receive benefits. Most had died off at that point.
That doesn't make them "American soldiers" or "US soldiers."
They were traitors that were given a pass because that's what leadership thought would help the country move forward. Good call...
Posted on 8/20/17 at 1:18 pm to DisplacedBuckeye
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traitors
Nope
Posted on 8/20/17 at 1:19 pm to highcotton2
I heard a couple of them used their benefits to transition to women.
Posted on 8/20/17 at 1:20 pm to Tiguar
Most people will just justify facts that they choose to believe. The narcissistic troll does the same.
Posted on 8/20/17 at 1:21 pm to Errerrerrwere
Never tried or convicted. Not traitors. If he's gonna play technical semantics game with the definition of liberal, he can deal with it here.
Posted on 8/20/17 at 1:22 pm to DisplacedBuckeye
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They were traitors that were given a pass because that's what leadership thought would help the country move forward. Good call...
I think calling them all "traitors" is a bit extreme. You apparently have some media-driven demonic view of the whole confederacy.
Posted on 8/20/17 at 1:22 pm to Errerrerrwere
Traitor may not be the right word, but it is the first that comes to mind.
Posted on 8/20/17 at 1:22 pm to Tiguar
He/she is an mess.
Posted on 8/20/17 at 1:25 pm to Tiguar
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Never tried or convicted.
I don't need for either of these to be true.
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trai·tor
noun
a person who betrays a friend, country, principle, etc.
Posted on 8/20/17 at 1:26 pm to The Pirate King
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I think calling them all "traitors" is a bit extreme.
I don't. You can assign any severity you like, but that's what they were.
Posted on 8/20/17 at 1:27 pm to DisplacedBuckeye
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a person who betrays a friend, country, principle, etc.
They had already formed their own country and were invaded, that is called defending your home.
Posted on 8/20/17 at 1:27 pm to DisplacedBuckeye
I thought we were tearing down statues of confederates because they were Nazis?
Posted on 8/20/17 at 1:28 pm to DisplacedBuckeye
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I don't. You can assign any severity you like, but that's what they were.
Then going by your metric, our founding fathers and all of the men who fought Britain were all traitors for the revolutionary war.
Posted on 8/20/17 at 1:29 pm to DisplacedBuckeye
Secession was likely legal. Never tried. Court system in this country you defend assumes innocence. Not traitors.
Posted on 8/20/17 at 1:29 pm to The Pirate King
They were
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