FamRSearch@aol.com wrote: > Matt > > Exactly. Union Pensions were paid by the federal govenment much > like soldiers today get pensions after 20+ years of service or > widows get pensions if their husband is killed while in the military > service. Those pensions were passed by an act of congress and were > administered by the War Department and the the Department of > Veterans Affairs. Pensions were also paid to the widows of disabled Union veterans (and the degree of disability could be very slight) even if the marriage did not take place until long after the war was over. Some Civil War widows pensions were still being paid in the 1940s. -- Don Aitken Don Aitken <don-aitken@freeuk.com>