Irene Triplett, the last person to receive a pension from the American Civil War, has passed away at age 90. Triplett died Tuesday after surgical complications following a fall at a North Carolina ...
As the hour of reckoning nears for President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda, congressional Democrats face a daunting choice: scale back their signature Build Back Better reconciliation legislation and ...
The last person to receive a Civil War-era pension died in North Carolina last week, according to reports. The Wall Street Journal reported that Irene Triplett died at a nursing home in Wilkesboro on ...
NEWBERRY, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - The stories of over 80,000 Americans who fought and lived through the Revolutionary War are waiting to be shared. Written in cursive and found at the National Archives, ...
I was dismayed by Steve Chapman’s portrayal of the Civil War pension act as yet one more government boondoggle in his recent column. The Civil War killed up to 750,000 men and injured another half ...
The Civil War may have ended 152 years ago, but for Irene Triplett, it still continues in a way far more tangible than recent fights over Confederate monuments. For Triplett, 87, the Civil War means a ...
The Revolutionary War Pension Files Transcription Project aims to transcribe approximately 2.3 million original documents that correspond with more than 83,000 individual soldiers. The information ...
How many times did David Beach apply for his Revolutionary War pension? How much did Joseph Smead of Massachusetts receive for his? Did Ephraim Blackmer ever get the land warrant he applied for after ...
1781: The last major battle of the American Revolutionary War begins in Yorktown, Virginia. The American forces, led by George Washington, would eventually defeat the British troops under Lord ...
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