La última persona que recibió una pensión de la época de la Guerra Civil murió la semana pasada
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}La última persona que recibió una pensión de la época de la Guerra Civil murió en Carolina del Norte la semana pasada, según los informes.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Irene Triplett died at a nursing home in Wilkesboro on May 31. She was 90.
Triplett’s father, Moses "Mose" Triplett, was a confederate soldier who deserted in 1863 and joined Union forces the following year, according to The Journal. The Wilkes-Journal Patriot reports that he married Irene’s mother Elida Hall in 1924 when he was 78 and she was 28. Mose Triplett was 83 when his daughter was born.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}“It was common for young women to marry elderly pensioners to get a guaranteed lifetime widow's pension. Children of veterans also received them. Yes indeed, Mose was up there in years when his daughter was born,” noted filmmaker Jamie McGuire on Twitter.
Mose Triplett’s first wife had died a few years before his marriage to Hall, according to the Wilkes-Journal Patriot, which notes that he began receiving a pension for his service in the Union Army in 1890. He died in 1938 at age 92, just a few days after attending a reunion in Gettysburg marking the 75th anniversary of the battle there.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Irene Triplett had been receiving a monthly pension of $73.13 from the Department of Veterans Affairs, according to The Journal.
PROYECTIL DE ARTILLERÍA DE LA GUERRA CIVIL DESCUBIERTO EN EL CENTRO DE CHARLESTON
Irene Triplett’s death has garnered plenty of attention.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The graves of a Union soldier with Confederate soldiers are shown at sunset at the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park April 7, 2015 in Appomattox, Virginia - file photo (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
“Yesterday was the first time since the late 1860s that the U.S. Government has not been paying a monthly pension to either a Union Soldier or one of his dependents. Think on that,” wrote McGuire, in a series of tweets on June 2.
FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai also noted the importance of Triplett’s passing, as did the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Los yacimientos de la Guerra Civil de EE.UU. ofrecen periódicamente nuevos atisbos del sangriento conflicto. A principios de este año, por ejemplo, se descubrió un proyectil de artillería de la Guerra Civil en el centro de Charleston.
Field and staff officers of the 69th Pennsylvania Infantry, a volunteer regiment in the Union army, at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania during the American Civil War, June 1865. Photo by William Morris Smith. (Photo by Library of Congress/Getty Images)
El año pasado se descubrió en un bosque de Kansas una lápida de la época de la Guerra Civil relacionada con la infame Incursión de Quantrill.
También en 2019, se descubrió una bala de cañón de la Guerra Civil alojada en un nogal de una casa histórica de Independence, Mo.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}EL HURACÁN DORIAN DESENTIERRA BALAS DE CAÑÓN DE LA GUERRA CIVIL EN LA PLAYA DE CAROLINA DEL SUR
A principios de año, unos arqueólogos de Delaware localizaron la lápida de un soldado de la Guerra Civil que puede proporcionar una pista vital para descubrir un cementerio afroamericano perdido hace mucho tiempo.
En 2018, se descubrieron los restos de dos soldados de la Guerra Civil en una fosa funeraria de un cirujano en el Parque Nacional del Campo de Batalla de Manassas, en Virginia. También en 2018, un veraneante en una playa de Carolina del Norte grabó con un dron un naufragio de la época de la Guerra Civil.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}In 2017, forensic linguists said they had likely unraveled the mystery surrounding a famous Civil War-era letter long believed to have been written by President Abraham Lincoln.
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En 2015, se sacaron del río Savannah, en Georgia, los restos de un buque de guerra confederado. Al año siguiente, se descubrieron los restos del naufragio de un gran barco de vapor con casco de hierro de la época de la Guerra Civil frente a la costa de Carolina del Norte. El barco, que se encontró frente a Oak Island, Carolina del Norte, fue identificado provisionalmente como el corredor de bloqueo Agnes E. Fry.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Fox News’ Madeline Farber and The Associated Press contributed to this article. Follow James Rogers on Twitter @jamesjrogers