Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-18
HOW SOUTHERN STATES TAKE
CARE OF VETERANS.

The last annual report of tie Home
for Confederate Veterans at Higgi S
vile, No., which the State has accepted
and pledged itself to support, contains
some interesting information relating
to State aid in behalf of the indigent
and helpless ex-Confederate soldiers.
The status of the southern States oa
this matter is as follows:
Georgia-Has no Confederate home.
Appropriated for pensions IN 1876
S5S0,000.
Alabama.-Has no home. Levles q
special tax OF one.half mill on the DO :
lar for exclusive use OF needy ex Coz
federate soldiers end widows of sam. {,
amounting TO Sis 000 per annum,
which amount is distributed to tie
needy in proportion to their several
disabilities.
Arkansas.-Has home and max S
an annual appropriation equal to $3.50
per capita for each inmate, besid, s
granting pension to men not in to-,
home. the amount ranging from S25 TO
500 each per annum. according TO their
lndigency or disability.
Tennessee-The Legislature donated
the Hermitage farm, consisting OF 40
acres. to be used for a Confederate
home; appropriated 5000 for the
erection of additional buildings ard
gives IS. 800 annually for the mainte
nance of the inmates and $4,000 an
nually for pensions.
Louis!ana-Has a home which is
maintained by State appropriations.
Also furnishes artificial limbs or COM
mutation in lieu thereof every four
years at the rate of $50 per leg and S65
per arm TO men who lost their limbs
during the war. In addition to the
foregoing, all soldiers who sustained
serious injury while in service, and also
widows OF soldiers in INDECENT circum
stances, are entitled to 100 acres oil
land from the State.
Texas-Has home with capacity
of $50 inmates. The State appropli.
ton for their support during the year
1896 was over SO, 600.
North Carolina-Has a home and
appropriates $500 annually for its
support, raises by special tax about
500, 900 year for pensions, paying 10
first class S64; second class, SIS; tnird
class, $50; fourth class, SIG, aud 10
widows, ali SIC each.
Kentucky-Organized Confedera 9
Veteran Association in 1890, and durli &
the past six years the association has
extended relief to large number of
her needy veterans and has given
Christian burial to many of her honor
ed dead.
South Carolina.-The General AS.
sembiy appropriates 800 600 annually
for the support of her needy ex.Con-
federates.
Missizsippi.-The State appropriates
$4,000 year to her resident XCon-
lederates and widows of her deceased
soldiers.
Virginia.-The Legislature appro-
PIRATES for the support of the ex-Con
federates' Home $3.50 per annum for
each inmate to an extent not to exceed
$4,000 per annum, the home associa-
ton contracting to relinquish to the
State the title to its property twenty
two years after 1892. The city of Rich
mond donates to the home 81 600 per
year.
Maryland-Tb Legislature donated
the Pikesvile arsenal for an Exon
federate home in 1883, and makes an
appropriation for its maintenance.
The Virginia home is the largest and
receives tine greatest appropriation.
The State gives to it $780, 900 year and
25a needy veterans are spending the
evening of their lives under its kindly
shelter.
Besides supporting the home SO WELL
Virginia gives more than 100000 n
year in pensions to Confederate vete-
ranc