If you read to the bottom of my last post, you found the big plot twist: Benjamin Black did not serve in the Mexican-American War at all, yet he fraudulently filed for and received pension benefits as a Mexican War veteran!

I came across quite a gold mine of information today concerning my great-great-great-grandfather Benjamin Franklin Black. He’s been a bit of an enigma and until recently, I had not known about his military service. I ordered the pension file. It arrived today and…well, WOW.