Last Person to Receive Civil War-Era Pension Dies

Re:Last Person to Receive Civil War-Era Pension Dies by WalterBright on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @12:12AM (#23399591)

I heard that the last Civil War soldier died in the 1950s.

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Re:Last Person to Receive Civil War-Era Pension Dies by pfranz on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @01:24AM (#23400093)

I know someone (born in 1951) who said they remember a school announcement that the last Civil War soldier died. That matches what you had heard.

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Re:Last Person to Receive Civil War-Era Pension Dies by ponker on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @04:07AM (#23401117)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Woolson

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Re:Last Person to Receive Civil War-Era Pension Dies by WalterBright on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @05:52AM (#23401696)

WW2 ended 75 years ago, so someone 16 serving in 1945 would be 91 today.

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Re:Last Person to Receive Civil War-Era Pension Dies by throwaway0a5e on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @08:50AM (#23402739)

If I remember correctly the "why we fight" series of WW2 propaganda films opens with elderly American Civil War veterans participating in the 1940 Washington DC memorial day parade.

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