Civil War Pension Acts
(1865 - 1930)
(The link for Corporal Barton P. Ambrose is no longer available. The following is an excerpt from the Civil War Congressional Pension Acts and can be used to estimate the amount of Coporal Ambrose's pension.)
CLAIM FOR PENSION
An Act granting pensions to certain enlisted men , soldiers, and officers who served in the Civil War and the war with Mexico.
Be it ensacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled:
That any person who served ninety days or more in the military or naval service
of the United States during the late Civil War, or sixty days in the war with
Mexico, who has been honorably discharged therefrom, and who has reached the
age of sixty- two years or over, shall, upon making proof of such facts, according
to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may provide,
be placed upon the pension roll, and be entitled to receive a monthly pension
as follows:
In case such person has reached the age of:
| Age 62 | Age 70 | Age 75 |
| $12.00/mo | $15.00/mo | $20.00/mo |
and such pension shall commence from the date of the filing of the application in the Bureau of Pensions after the passage and approval of this Act: Provided, that pensioners who are sixty-two years of age or over, and who are now receiving pensions under existing laws, or whose claims are pending in the in the Bureau of Pensions, may, by application to the Commissioner of Pensions, in such form as he may prescribe, receive the benefits of this Act; and nothing herein contained shall prevent any pensioner or person entitled to a pension from prosecuting his claim and receiving a pension under any other general and special act: Provided, that no person shall receive a pension under any other law at the time or for the same period that he is receiving a pension under the provisions of this Act: Provided, further, that no person who is now receiving or shall hereafter receive a greater pension under any other general or special law than he would be entitled to receive under the provisions herein shall be pensionable under this Act.