The American Civil War ended in 1865, but the Department of Veterans Affairs continued paying survivor benefits more than 150 years later. Mose Triplett fought for the Confederacy before defecting to the Union, and began receiving his pension 20 years after the war ended.

Later, he remarried, and his daughter Irene, born in 1930 when he was 83, was eligible for a monthly pension of $73.13 (£57.57). She continued to receive the pension until her death in 2020 at the age of 90.

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