The Unspendable Pension of Henrietta Emory Meads (opens in new tab)

Sometime in July 1867, Henrietta Emory wrote to a clerk in the Claim Division of the Maryland Freedmen’s Bureau describing the challenges she had faced in trying to get money due to her as a soldier’s widow. “I have had so much trouble & gone so in debt to get my poor husband’s bounty, that … Read More Read More The post The Unspendable Pension of Henrietta Emory Meads appeared first on The Journal of the Civil War Era.