The times., 1899-05-14
LAST PENS[0NER OF
THE CIVIL WAR
Taps Will Sound Over Him in
the Next Century.
Brave Veterans Making Way for
Valiant Successors.
Interesting Statistics Concerning
the Military Wards of the Nm
tion-The World Represented.

The last veteran of the American civil
war will be dead in 1915.
| According to a computation made by Mr.
/ Yaeger. of the Bureau of Pensions in con-
formity with the ordinary tables OF NOR
tality, it has been reckoned that in 1910
there will remain 626.000 civil war vete-
rams; in 1920, $1,000; in 1880, $1,000; in
| 1910, $40. In the year 1915 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 1904, or five years hence.
| 1t is estimated that there are 100000
men who fought in the Union armies dur
ing the civil war. who have never applied
for pension, and large percentage OF
1 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 1914 Il
survivor may be married to girl of six
teen and she becoming a soldiers widow.
may live to be ninety years old, so that
she would continue to draw a widows pen
sion until the year 20iS.
Pensions are being paid today
to widows OF soldiers who fought
in the war of American Inde
pendence and to the daughters of SOL
diers 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 993, III
classified as follows:
Widows of Revolutionary soldiers, S; daughters
OF Revolutionary soldiers. Z; survivors Of the war
| of 1872. 81 widows of the soldiers of the war of
1872. 2,iO1; survivors of Indian wars, 1882 to
1872, 2,Ol9; widows of Indian wars, ls52 to ISL,
1907; survivors of the Mexican War, l0,0l2; wild
ows of soldiers of The Mexican War, S,1iS Under
| general laws. army inyalids, 327,0s army wild
ows % 5l5; navy nvalids, 4s:S3; navy widows.
e,S0o. Act of June 81, 1890, army inyalids,
3g9, 800: army widows 1i9.7s5; navy inyalids.
1853; navy widows, 5,9ii army nurses 655.
At the close of the year, juno 80, 1898.
the annual value of the pension roll was
$3.50, ,96S. .465. an increase in value over the
roll of 1897 of $l.1T3,037, so 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
! pensions for increased disabilities, as pro-
vided by law.
, The names of the widows of Revolution
ary soldiers. their ages and addresses. fol-
low: Esther S. Damon, widow of Noah
Damon, eighty-fiye years old, Plymouth
Union. Vt; Nancy Jones. eighty-fye. wild
ow of James Jones. Jonesboro. Tenn; Re-
! becca Mayer, eighty-five. widow of Stephen
Mayer, Newbern, Va: Mary Snead, eighty
three, widow of Bowdoin Snead. Parksley
Va; Nancy A. Weatherman, eghty-nine
widow of Robert Glasscock, Elk Mills
Tenn.
The names of the daughters OF Revolu-
tionary soldiers follow: Hannah Newell
Barrett. ninety-nine years old, daughter o
? | Noah Harrod. Boston, Mass; Susannat
Chadwick. eighty-four. daughter Of Elihy
Chadwick, Emporium, Pa; Sarah c. Hurl-
, burt, eighty-one. daughter of Elijah Weeks
r Little Marsh, Pa; Eliza Sanford, daughter
2 | of William Sanford. Bloomfield, N. j..
4 Ann NJ. Slaughter. eighty nine, daughter
of Philip Slaughter, Mitchell Station, Va.
7 | Rhoda Augusta Thompson, seventy -eight
daughter of Thaddeus Thompson. Wood
E bury, Conn: Augusta Tuller. daughter o
Isaac Way, Bridgeport, Conn.
The names of the three surviving sol
diers OF the war of 1912 are Hiram Cronk
> Elijah Glenn, and Eleazor Smitht. Cronl
is ninety-nine years old, served with tn
q New York troops, and lives in northwest
ern New York. Glenn is 103 years old
served with the Maryland troops, and live
: at Newark, n. J. Smith is 103 years old
!, served with the New Hampshire troops
and lives at Danbury. n. H.
> The amount expended for pensions +
the District of Columbia last year was 81,
]. 532. .120.97. which was distributed anon
S,629 pensioners.
America has pensioners throughout th
. world. In foreign countries there are pen
. sioners as follows: Austria Hungary, q
!, Algiers. 2; Argentine Republic, 4: Aus
N. vgtu 1s T. Dab q
> Belgium. 10; Bermuda, s; Bolivia, 1; Bra
zil, s: British Guiana, /; Bulgaria, /; Can
y ada, 2,192; Chile. 10: China. 16; Comor
Islands. /: Costa Rica, g. Cuba, 4; Cyprus
2; Danish West Indies. 2; Denmark, 2S
Dutch East Indies. /; Dutch West Indie!
2; Ecuador. 3; England, 800; Egypt,
;, Finland. /; France. So; Germany, 6S2
% Greece, 5; Guatemala. A. Hawaii, 20; Hon
l. duras, Z; India. 2; Ireland, 42s; Isle {
e. Man. 2: Italy. "a; Japan. u; Korea, ]
lie Liberia 6; MADEIRA. 4; Malta, q Mauritiu
/; Mexico. H.; Netherlands, 10; New Zea
A land 8: Nicaragua. 2; Norway, 40; Para
y quay /; Peru. Z; Portugal, 4; Russia,
lie Salvador, /; Scotland. S4 Seychelles Is
s. ands, 2: Siam. 2; South African Republi
IS 8: Spain. 7; st. Helena. /; Sweden. Al
d Switzerland. IA; Tahiti. 2; Turkey.
lie United States OF Colombia, 8: Uruguay,
D Wales. I3; West Indies, IA.
IL One of the interesting features brougi
lg out by an inspection Of the pension roll
lie is the number of officers of high rank VIII
yielded up their lives during the civ
war.
he The number OF Confederate genera
re who were killed in action or who died
at wounds received on the field OF battle
a. seventy-three, one full general, three liet
Us tenant generals, six major generals, ar
III sixty-three brigadier generals On Il
le Federal side there was loss OF ten m;
IN jor generals and thirty nine brigadier gel
e, erals Among the Federal generals killt
OF were Reynolds, Mcpherson, Mansiel
er Lyon, Sedgwick and Stevens. Among Il
Confederate generals killed were Aibe
"a Sidney Johnson, Jackson, Stuart, Pol
10 Hill. Rodes. Fender, Cleburne, Garnet
ld McCulloch. Zollicoffer and w. E. Jones.
s. At the close Of the civil war the regul;
" and volunteer rolls bore the names of 8
,e generals. Adding TO this list the names
lie those who resigned OF were mustered o.
er during the war. there were probably a
er Federal generals living at that time B
'e' now many of those who were great acto
in the conflict are dead. Grant, Sherma
Sheridan, Rosecrans. Hooker, Buell.. Blu
ler Banks, Dix. Hancock, Logan. Warre
x Humphreys, Candy. Hunter, Pope. Or
n and Crook are beneath the sod.
On the Southern side Robert E. Lee. J
I'D seph f. Johnston, Beauregard. Kirl
n Smith. Bragg. Hood. Early, Ewell. d.
Hill. Anderson. Taylor. Price. Brecki
as ridge, Hardee Mahone Ransom. Chea
Ike ham. Hoke. Pickett, wilcox, Field al
d. Forrest and many others have pass
away.
IL Joe Wheeler and Fitzhugh Lee live Al
lis are now loved by their kinsmen of I
lis North Gen NJ. C. Butler. late of the Co
I federate army, Is now major general