re: #149 Tigger2005

I think there were a few Civil War vets still around during WW2 and a bit beyond. I believe one of the last CW vets died in the mid-1950’s. He was probably 16 or 17 or so at the end of the war.

This blew my mind when I first read it. It’s from 2004.

Civil War widow, final link to old Confederacy, dies

After living in obscurity and poverty for most of her life, she spent her final years with the Sons of Confederate Veterans carrying her to conventions and rallies, often with a small Confederate battle flag waving in her hand and her clothes the colors of the rebel banner.

“I don’t see nothing wrong with the flag flying,” she said frequently.

Gertrude Janeway, the last widow of a Union veteran from the Civil War, died in January 2003 at her home in Tennessee. She was 93 and had married veteran John Janeway when she was 18.