The Georgia in the Civil War Message Board

Confederate Pensions

Both my great, great uncles William T. Flanigan and James Flanigan applied for indigent soldier pensions in 1900-1910. They were both near or in their 60's by then and pretty broken down. However, James lived until 1930 and was in the 1930 census. The data base for Georgia Confederate Pensions is a good source of info if your relatives were disabled during or after the war. I think James or William got $60 a month which was pretty good in 1910. Union vets did better and did not have to wait years for amputee pensions etc. There were three brothers who were all teenagers when they volunteered for the war. They all got ill or injured due to the war conditions. James and Henry Flanigan lived into their 80's and one relative last name Avery posed in uniform sometime in 1920's. my brother has the photo. He was a private of Cobb's calvery and could still fit into his uniform all those years later. I wonder if he was buried uniform and if he had kept his sword?