US Law giving Confederates full rights

Confederate veterans were afforded status equal to that of
United States veterans by an act approved by the Congress
of the United States of America on May 23, 1958, and signed
into law by President Dwight D.  Eisenhower, in accordance
with Public Law 85-425, thereby amending the Veterans'
Benefit Act of 1957

Federal Statutes

US Law that defines status of Confederate Veterans

Public Law 85-425 adopted May 23, 1958 as H.R. 358

AN ACT

To increase the monthly rates of pension payable to widows
and former widows of deceased veterans of the Spanish-American
War, Civil War, Indian War, and Mexican War, and provide
pensions to widows of veterans who served in the military or
naval forces of the Confederate States of America during the
Civil War...

CONFEDERATE FORCES VETERANS

Sec. 410. The Administrator shall pay to each person who
served in the military or naval forces of the Confederate
States of America during the Civil War a monthly pension
in the same amounts and subject to the same conditions as
would have been applicable to such... if such forces had
been service in the military or naval service of the
United States.

Sec. 2. This act shall be effective from the first day of
the second calendar month following its enactment.

Approved May 23, 1958.