Confederate States Army
Pension Records and Applications

Each individual state maintains
Civil War Confederate States Army Pension Records. 
For more information, select each state on this website
under the CSA Pensions category.


The Mississippi Historical Society states that "Mississippi, which was the only state to include African Americans from its program’s beginning in 1888, had 1,739 black pensioners; North Carolina, which first offered pensions in 1927 had 121; South Carolina, which first offered pensions in 1923, had 328; Tennessee, which first offered pensions in 1921, had 195; and Virginia, which first offered pensions in 1924, had 424 black pensioners." As an example, the entire 328 South Carolina pensioners are listed on this website.  See the South Carolina web page on this website.





1Hollandsworth, James. "Black Confederate Pensioners After the Civil War." Mississippi History Now. Web. 1 May 2010. <http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/articles/289/black-confederate-pensioners-after-the-civil-war>
 

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