Online: North Carolina Confederate Soldiers and Widows Applications, 1885-1953 (at FamilySearch.org) OKLAHOMA This is not the first push to remove these monuments –– after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, turned deadly in 2017, a number of Confederate monuments came down.Floyd’s killing at the hands of police reinvigorated the movement to remove certain statues and monuments, and inspired debate, resulting in an executive order from President Donald Trump on Friday aimed at protecting such monuments from violence and vandalism.A Facebook post from Donnie Johnson on June 11 claims that with U.S. Public Law 85-425, Section 410, in 1958, Congress gave Confederate veterans the same legal status as U.S. veterans. Confederate veterans had to produce comrades who would swear to their “honorable” service. ��$$m�&��F;9��]����X�A�����f�_�0v =���5�H:�g����/z��/�T�鎪�����IL�&�K��:&] ���L{q+s6�ĤH{�'$(7?'((���宒4��J�$��AIZ9DI�KH�N��2ޕ�?
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And the system lasted long after the myth was prevalent. Initially, Mississippi’s pensions for Confederate veterans were limited to soldiers or sailors and their former servants with a disability sustained during the war, such as the loss of a limb, that prevented them from engaging in manual labor, and to women who had …
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The groundwork for reconciliation, however, was laid decades before Confederate soldiers and family members became available for federal benefits.