back-pensions

Updated: June 19, 2025

The agents were persons familiar with the laws, who busied themselves in finding possible pensioners and getting their claims established. The agitation of the subject had resulted in the arrears act of 1879, which gave the claimant back-pensions from the day of his discharge from the army to the date of filing his claim, regardless of the time when his disability began.

Charles Ramsdell Lingley - The United States Since the Civil War