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A Blog Remembering the Men and Women of the American Civil War, North & South, people, faces, and a unique culture we will never see again. Photos and stories about the people that lived it, including African American Photographs, Pre-Civil War history & the period in cultural history that began just after the Civil War. The historical info, photos and documents on this blog reflect the attitudes, perspectives, and beliefs of different times. This blog does not endorse the views expressed in some posts, which may contain materials offensive to some readers. You cannot compare the beliefs, values, politics, ethical values of today to the people of the 1800's.

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The events of the war, and the men of the war, are fast fading from the public attention. Its history is growing to be an “Old, Old Story.” Public interest is weakening day by day. The memory of march, and camp, and battle-field, of the long and manly endurance, of the superb and uncomplaining courage, of the mass of sacrifice that redeemed the Nation, is fast dying out. Those who rejoice in the liberty and peace secured by the soldier’s suffering and privation, accept the benefits, but deny or forget the benefactor-1877 National Tribune

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Last Civil War Vet116-yr-old Walter Williams, last Civil War vet, in his bed w. a cigar in his mouth & Confederate flag, Amer. flag & uniform hanging on wall behind him. Location: Houston, TX, USDate taken: 1959 Photographer: Thomas D. Mcavoy He said he had been a foragemaster in Hood’s Brigade and Quantrill’s Raiders. He would have been eight years old at the time he said he had joined the Confederate Army. When he died in 1959 in Houston, Texas, at the reported age of 117, Ulysses S. Grant III, chairman of the Civil War Centennial, said the death was an occasion for national mourning. Photo from Keith Cornelius.

Last Civil War Vet
116-yr-old Walter Williams, last Civil War vet, in his bed w. a cigar in his mouth & Confederate flag, Amer. flag & uniform hanging on wall behind him. Location: Houston, TX, US
Date taken: 1959 Photographer: Thomas D. Mcavoy

He said he had been a foragemaster in Hood’s Brigade and Quantrill’s Raiders. He would have been eight years old at the time he said he had joined the Confederate Army. When he died in 1959 in Houston, Texas, at the reported age of 117, Ulysses S. Grant III, chairman of the Civil War Centennial, said the death was an occasion for national mourning. Photo from Keith Cornelius.


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9 months ago on August 12, 2012 at 08:21am
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