The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-17
LAST pENSIONER OF
THE. CIVIL WAR

| Jaeger, of the bureau of pensions in con-
formity with the ordinary tables of NOR
tally, it has been reekoned that in 1910
there viii remain 62s.OoO civil war veterans;
in 1920, Psi coo; in 1880 $1,000; in 1910. $40 In
the year 1916 the last soldier of the civil
war will be in his grave.
| At present the pension roll is lengthen-
ing. More names are being added daily,
and it has been computed that the number
of pensioners will not begin to decrease
until 1901, or five years hence.
It is estimated that there are 100000 men
who fought in the union armies during the
civil war, who have never applied for a
pension, and a large percentage of these
remain to be heard from within the next
few years.
1t must not be understood that simply
because the last survivor of the civil war
is expected to be dead in 1915, that the
| payment of pensions will stop. In 1874 q
survivor may be married to a girl OF six
| teen and she becoming a soldiers WIDOW,
may live to be 90 years old, SO that she
would continue to draw a widows pension
until the year 2O1S.
Pensions are being paid today to widows
| of soldiers who fought in the war of Ameri-
| can independence and to the daughters OF
soldiers who carried muskets under Wash
| ington. There are borne on the pension
rolls many widows of soldiers who fought
| in the war of 1872 and pensions are also
| being paid to some survivors of this war.
The total number of pensioners at the
close of the last fiscal year was 999,n4
| classified as follows:
| Widows of Revolutionary soldiers 5;
daughters of Revolutionary soldiers, Z;
| survivors of the war of 1872 3; widows of
| the soldiers of the war of 1872, 2407; sur
| vivors of Indian wars, 1882 to 1912, 4067;
survivors of the Mexican War. 10,012 Wild
ows Of soldiers of the Mexican war, S,143.
| Under general laws, army invalids, 327 0SO;
army widows, 92,545; navy inyalids, 4,S33;
| navy widows, 1900. Act of June q, 1890,
army invalids, 300, 1885, army Widows 119,zs5;
navy invalids, 14543; navy-widows, 55944;
army nurses, ESQ.,
AT the close of the year, June so, 1898,
the annual value of the pension roll was
s13O,96S 465, an increase in value over the.
roll of 1897 of $1,17S,OS7, that the roll is
not only increasing in numbers but in
values. 1t is said by Commissioner Evans
! that the list will continue to increase in
value for some time, by reason of increased
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4 vided by law.
The names of the widows of Revolution
airy soldiers. their ages and addresses, fol-
low Esther s.. Damon, widow of Noah
| Damon, eighty-ive years old, Plymouth
! Union, VT; Nancy Jones, eighty-five, wild
ow of James. Jones, Jonesboro, Tenn; Re-
| becca Mayer, eghty-five, widow of Stephen
Mayer, Newbern, Va; Mary Snead, eighty
| wi of
Va; Nancy A. Weatherman, eighty-nine,
! widow OF Robert Glasscock, Elk Mills.
/ Tenn.
The names of the daughters of revolu-
tionary soldiers follow: Hannah Newell
Barrett, SO years cid, daughter of Noah
| Harrod, Boston, Mass; Susannah. Chad
wick, 81, daughter of Ellhu. Chadwick, EN-
| porium, Pa; Sarah c. Hurlburt, 81 daugh-
Ter OF Elijah Weeks Little Marsh, Pa;
Eliza Sanford, daughter of William Sand
ford, Bloomfield, N. j.; Ann NJ Slaughter,
81, daughter of Philip Slaughter, Mitchell
Station, Va; Rhoda Augusta Thompson,
Is, daughter of Thaddeus Thompson, Wood
| bury, Conn.,; Augusta fuller, daughter of
lssac Way, Bridgeport, Conn.
The names of the three surviving SOL
diers of the war of 1912 are Hiram Cronk,
Elijah Glenn and Eleazor Smith, Cronk
is 81 years old, served with the New York
/ troops, and lives in northwestern New.
York Glenn is 1903 years old, served with
the Maryland troops, and lives al Newark,
n. j. Smith is 1903 years old, served with
the New Hampshire troops, and lives at
Danbury, N. II.
| The amount expended for pensions in
the district of Columbia last year was ST.
| 532 12097 which was distributed among s.
| $40 pensioners.
America has pensioners throughout the
world. In foreign countries there are pen
sioners as follows: Austria Hungary, q;
Alglers, 2; Argentine Republic 4; Austra-
liza, 80; Azores Islands, L; Bahamas, 2; Bel
GUM, 15 Bermuda s; Bolivia, /; Brazil, 6;
British Guiana, l; Bulgaria, 1; Canada, q
1872; Chile, 10; China, 16; Comora Islands, /
Costa Rica, 3; Cuba, A; Cyprus, 2; Danish
West Indies, 2: Denmark, %; Dutch East
Indies, l; Dutch West Indies, 2: Ecuador
2; England, 800; Egypt. 1; Finland, l.
France. e.; Germany, 632; Greece, 5; Qua
temala, 4; Hawaii, 49, Honduras, Z; India
2; ireland, 425 Isle of Man, 2; Italy, "a;
Japan, IL; Korea, 1; Liberia, s; Madeira,
A Malta, 2; Mauritius, 1; Mexico, H.,
Netherlands, 10; New Zealand, s; Nicara-
gua 2; Norway, 49, Paraguay, /; Peru, Z;
Portugal, 7; Russia, A. Salvador, 1; Scot
land, ST; Seychelles Islands, 2; Siam, 2;
South African republic, 3; Spain, I; st.
Helena, 1; Sweden, 45; Switzerland, "A;
Tahiti 2; Turkey, Z; United States of Co.
lombia, g.; Uruguay, y; Wales, Is; West
Indies, IA.
One of the interesting features brought
out by an inspection of the pension rolls
is the number of officers of high rank who
yielded up their: lives during the civil war.
The number of confederate generals who
were killed in action or who died. Of
wounds received on the field of battle is
seventy-three, one full general, three iieu--
tenant generals, six major generals and
sixty-threes brigader generals. On tho
federal side there was loss Of ten major
generals and thirty-nine brigadier gener--
ais Among the federal generals. killed
1 were Reynolds, Mcpherson, Mansheid,
4 Lyon, Sedgwiok. and Stevens. Among: the
confederate generals killed were Albert
Sidney Johnston jackson, Stuart. FOLK,
Hill Rodes, Peader. Cleburne,- Garuete
McCulloeh. Zollicoffer and W. e.. Jones.
At the close OF the civil war the regular
4 and volunteer rolls bore the names of Jul
generals. Adding to this list the names OF
l those who resigned or were mustered out
durin; the war, there We're probably roo
federal generals living at that time But
NOW many of those who were great actQlS=