could you talk a little bit about the salary dispair i go between the white troops and black troops and when it changed and why it changed and was it legislation that did it or was it at the military level? thank you. yeah. starting salary for whites was 13 a month. blacks were ten. this was purely the fault of congress and, you know, conflicting laws that they passed over time. they finally straightened up the matter along about the latter part of 1864, i think, and brought the pay of black soldiers achieved parody with, you know, the white soldiers. is that yeah. i wanted to follow up on the pensions. they received pensions? oh, yeah. yeah. i used a lot of pension applications in the research for the book. yeah. there were god knows how many thousands of but, you know, yeah. my name is aca gordon, first commercial, secretary-general to sons and daughters of united states colored troops, with african-american civil war in washington, d.c. and i invite you i w
no questions. oh? could you talk a little bit about is that loud enough? could you talk a little bit about the salary disparages between the white troops and the black troops and when it changed and why it changed. and was it legislation that did it or was it at the military level? thank you. yeah. the black troops at first did not receive the same i mean, starting pay for a private was $13 a month. blacks were paid $10. this was purely the fault of congress and, you know, conflicting laws that they passed over time. it they finally straightened out the matter along about the latter part of 1864, i think, and brought the of black soldiers achieve ed parity wh the white soldiers. yeah. i wanted to follow up on the pensions. did they receive pensions? oh, yeah. yeah. i used a lot of pension applications in the research for the book, yeah. there were god knows how many thousands of, you know but yeah. my name is ezra gordon. i m secretary general to sons an