Civil War Soldier… His Wife Was FIFTY Years Younger

The Civil War ended in April 1865 and the last Civil War veterans, who lived past one-hundred, died in the 1950’s. But according to a story, August 2016 in the “U.S. News & World Report,” by Curt Mills, the United States was still paying a veteran’s pension to the daughter of Mose Triplett, a soldier who started as a Confederate Rebel and defected to the North and became a Yankee. When Mose died in 1938, the pension he was receiving went to his daughter Irene. If you’re counting the years since the Civil War ended and thinking… that’s not possible, let me give you a hint. His second wife was fifty-years younger. Mose was eighty-three when his daughter Irene was born. Mose was an elderly father, he had his last child, a son at eighty-seven. He must have been a hearty man, he even made it to the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.

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The South After the Civil War

The Civil War took a terrible toll on the southern people. With the help of enslaved Africans, the south built homes and a large agricultural industry that ended with the Civil War and in the deaths of thousands of Confederate and Union soldiers. The war lasted from 1860-1865, but the pace of reconstruction was slow. Today you’ll find that people of black and white ethnicity peacefully populate the south. This mix of ethnicities provides for cultural diversity in food, music, literature and festivities. The south has maintained much of its original French culture and Texas, Louisiana and Florida still maintain strong Latin cultures. Suellen Ocean is the author of the Civil War Era Historic Romance, Black Pansy.

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