>>Irene Triplett, who died last month at the age of 90, received a check for $73.13 every month. Her father, Mose Triplett, served as a private in the Confederate Army before deserting and shifting his allegiances to the Union, according to Ian Shapira of the Washington Post.<<

More:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/last-person-receive-civil-war-pension-dies-180975049/

Despite the last person to die who had a direct link to the American Civil War, what jars the mind is how life then was not only radically different, but existed in a different world. It is a reminder that slavery when one person owned and could do what they liked with the life of another thrived, and today still influences American attitudes and discrimination.

PermeateFree said:

>>Irene Triplett, who died last month at the age of 90, received a check for $73.13 every month. Her father, Mose Triplett, served as a private in the Confederate Army before deserting and shifting his allegiances to the Union, according to Ian Shapira of the Washington Post.<<

More:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/last-person-receive-civil-war-pension-dies-180975049/

Despite the last person to die who had a direct link to the American Civil War, what jars the mind is how life then was not only radically different, but existed in a different world. It is a reminder that slavery when one person owned and could do what they liked with the life of another thrived, and today still influences American attitudes and discrimination.

Very interesting. Mose was 83 when she was born.

In 1938, aged 92, Mose Triplett attended a reunion at Gettysburg. In his remarks, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt referred to the Gettysburg Address, delivered in November 1863: “Lincoln spoke in solace for all who fought upon this field; and the years have laid their balm upon their wounds. Men who wore the blue and men who wore the gray are here together, a fragment spared by time.”

dv said:

PermeateFree said:

>>Irene Triplett, who died last month at the age of 90, received a check for $73.13 every month. Her father, Mose Triplett, served as a private in the Confederate Army before deserting and shifting his allegiances to the Union, according to Ian Shapira of the Washington Post.<<

More:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/last-person-receive-civil-war-pension-dies-180975049/

Despite the last person to die who had a direct link to the American Civil War, what jars the mind is how life then was not only radically different, but existed in a different world. It is a reminder that slavery when one person owned and could do what they liked with the life of another thrived, and today still influences American attitudes and discrimination.

Very interesting. Mose was 83 when she was born.

In 1938, aged 92, Mose Triplett attended a reunion at Gettysburg. In his remarks, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt referred to the Gettysburg Address, delivered in November 1863: “Lincoln spoke in solace for all who fought upon this field; and the years have laid their balm upon their wounds. Men who wore the blue and men who wore the gray are here together, a fragment spared by time.”

If the Confederates had won I wonder if there would still be slavery in the new United States?

Tamb said:

dv said:

PermeateFree said:

>>Irene Triplett, who died last month at the age of 90, received a check for $73.13 every month. Her father, Mose Triplett, served as a private in the Confederate Army before deserting and shifting his allegiances to the Union, according to Ian Shapira of the Washington Post.<<

More:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/last-person-receive-civil-war-pension-dies-180975049/

Despite the last person to die who had a direct link to the American Civil War, what jars the mind is how life then was not only radically different, but existed in a different world. It is a reminder that slavery when one person owned and could do what they liked with the life of another thrived, and today still influences American attitudes and discrimination.

Very interesting. Mose was 83 when she was born.

In 1938, aged 92, Mose Triplett attended a reunion at Gettysburg. In his remarks, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt referred to the Gettysburg Address, delivered in November 1863: “Lincoln spoke in solace for all who fought upon this field; and the years have laid their balm upon their wounds. Men who wore the blue and men who wore the gray are here together, a fragment spared by time.”

If the Confederates had won I wonder if there would still be slavery in the new United States?

You mean won the whole shebang, or managed to negotiate a truce and permanent secession? I think the former would have been flatly impossible.

But we don’t get to rerun the experiment.

dv said:

Tamb said:

dv said:

If the Confederates had won I wonder if there would still be slavery in the new United States?

You mean won the whole shebang, or managed to negotiate a truce and permanent secession? I think the former would have been flatly impossible.

But we don’t get to rerun the experiment.

It’s getting a bit close atm.

Tamb said:

dv said:

Tamb said:

If the Confederates had won I wonder if there would still be slavery in the new United States?

You mean won the whole shebang, or managed to negotiate a truce and permanent secession? I think the former would have been flatly impossible.

But we don’t get to rerun the experiment.

It’s getting a bit close atm.

? but do we think the confederates will win this time ¿

SCIENCE said:

Tamb said:

dv said:

You mean won the whole shebang, or managed to negotiate a truce and permanent secession? I think the former would have been flatly impossible.

But we don’t get to rerun the experiment.

It’s getting a bit close atm.

? but do we think the confederates will win this time ¿

If they are Republicans, yes.