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The last person to draw a Civil War era pension just recently passed away. Yes, really.

Posted on December 11, 2021

Ask any 5th grader what year the Civil War ended and you’ll likely be told 1865. A quick bit of math will tell you that was 156 years ago.

Ask any American of any age when the last Civil War-era pensioner passed away and they’ll likely guess some time around the mid-1900s.

But guess what? They would be wrong. In fact, they would be very wrong.

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