albert henry woolson was the last civil war person to die.
albert henry woolson was the last civil war person to die.
when did the last civil war person died?
albert henry woolson
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salling's own status is disputed. in 1991, william marvel examined the claims of salling and several other "last civil war veterans" for a piece in the civil war history magazine "blue & gray." marvel found census data that indicated salling was born in 1858, not 1846. although in 1900 salling supplied a birthdate of march 1858, he appears to have been born around 1856, still too late to have served in the confederate army. the 1860 census lists him as 4 years old, and the 1870 census as 14. william lundy is listed as 1 year old on the 1860 census, and from 1870 until 1930 he gave census marshals ages that reflected birthdates as early as 1853 and as late as 1860. he did not push his birthdate back to the 1840s until he applied for a confederate pension from the state of florida. in the same piece, marvel confirmed woolson's claim to be the last surviving union veteran and asserted that woolson was the last genuine civil war veteran on either side. however, marvel did not present research establishing who, among the several other confederate claims from the 1950s, some of which appear to be genuine, was the real last confederate veteran.
list of last surviving veterans of military insurgencies and wars