Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Last of the Civil War veterans 1890's to 1950's

I recall as a small child in the late 40's seeing an old man in our town who was a Civil War vet who had been here since the 1880's. He lived in an old hotel here and I would see him huddled under his blanket peacefully sleeping in his overstuffed chair when my dad would take me to the adjoining barber shop.

The older part of our cemetery has many GAR headstones.