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By the of the 19th century, United States’ pension administration was huge: occupying an imposing building, overseeing the distribution of $138 million in pensions to nearly a million Union veterans and surviving relatives.
Southern black women artfully navigated the U.S. pension bureaucracy to gain recognition as Union widows.
Learn how the Pension Office forced women to fight for survival after the Civil War.