History of the Civil War Military Pensions, 1861-1885 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from History of the Civil War Military Pensions, 1861-1885 This was done by an act of Congress passed on July 22, 1861. After authorizing the President to accept the services of volunteers, not exceeding five hundred thousand, the following guarantee was inserted. Any volunteer who should be wounded or disabled while in the service, shall be entitled to the same benefits which have been or may be conferred on persons disabled in the regular service, and the widow, if there be one, and if not, the legal heirs of such as die, or may be killed in service, in addition to all arrears of pay and allowances, shall receive the sum of one hundred dollars.3 No discussion whatever attended this provision when it was introduced, and the readiness with which it was accepted, illustrates the attitude of Congress toward offering inducements for volunteering. This act marks the beginning of the Civil War pension legislation. Within the next half century our country was to witness the enactment and operation of a Series of pension laws, the liberality and ex pense of which have no parallel in the history of any nation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.