Word: woolson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...served three years as a Confederate private, mainly digging saltpeter for gunpowder in the hills near his lifelong home in Slant, Va.; of pneumonia; at a clinic in Kingsport, Tenn. Mountaineer Sailing, a rocking-chair pacifist ("Wars are all part of some scheme"), outlived the last Union soldier-Albert Woolson, who died in Duluth, Aug. 2, 1956-but not the Confederacy's Walter W. ("Old Reb") Williams, who lives in Houston and is the Civil War's last...
Died. Albert Woolson, 109, last surviving Union veteran of the Civil War,* at 17 enlisted (October 1864) as a drummer in the 1st Minnesota Heavy Artillery Regiment, traveled with Union occupation forces through Tennessee but saw no action; of lung congestion; in Duluth. Chipper, cigar-smoking Woolson was senior vice commander of the once influential (peak membership in 1890: 408,489) Grand Army of the Republic, which held its last encampment...
...Ordered the Veterans Administration to pay for home treatment of Albert Woolson, 108, in order to spare him the 165-mile trip from his Duluth home to the nearest VA hospital. Woolson, at 17 a drummer boy in Minnesota's 1st Heavy Artillery Regiment, is the Union Army's lone Civil War survivor...
Died. Thomas Evans Riddle, 107, one of the four surviving Confederate veterans (the sole living Union veteran: Albert Woolson, 107, of Duluth, Minn.); in Austin, Texas...
...Duluth, the last survivor of some 2,675,000 Union Army veterans, onetime Drummer Boy Albert Woolson, chalked up another year of his sprightly second century, puffed out 107 candles on his birthday cake...