Did an Act of Congress make Confederate Soldiers of the U.S.

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The short answer is that no, the act of Congress didn't exactly do that. It is a bit more nuanced.

The conflation of two very disparate sections of the U.S. Code is a tip-off that someone is trying the old flim-flam. In 1957, Congress passed Public Law 85-425, increasing the pensions of widows of veterans and for the purposes of defining who was an eligible widow, Congress generously included the surviving widows of Confederate soldiers. The last confirmed confederate soldier died in 1951, six years before the law was passed. The claim is bogus.

As for statues on public lands, I'd prefer we give that space over to statues of Americans who didn't take up arms against our government to maintain their right to buy and sell human beings, break up families, rape women and children, and degrade humanity.

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under U.S. Public Law 810, Approved by the 17th Congress on 26 Feb 1929 the War Department was directed to erect headstones and recognize Confederate grave sites as U.S. War dead grave sites. Just for the record the last Confederate veteran died in 1958. When you remove a Confederate statue, monument or headstone, you are in fact, removing a statue, monument or head stone of a U.S. VETERAN

It sounds like the same kind of bullshit that neo-confederates spew, such as nonsense like the Civil War wasn't about slavery and was instead about "states' rights". It's a deliberate white washing (pun intended) of history for nefarious purposes.

The rights of states to continue with slavery.

That's what I tell them.

Nobody was telling the southern states they couldn't own slaves. What they were being told was when their slaves went to certain other states, either by fleeing or traveling with their slave owners, they were no longer slaves.

So historically speaking, the rational for the Civil War was an anti-states' rights position and this was fully articulated in numerous confederate documents, not the least of which was all the articles of secession issued by the confederate states.

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and pesky Constitutions only apply when they're trying to justify their warped viewpoint.

For future reference. There's some excellent facts shared in this thread.

Thanks all.

I had an informed discussion thanks to all your help.

Not sure how much I got through but it did help.