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Nope. However, my late stepfather's father was born in the late 1860s (died in the early 1960s) and his father was born in the 1830s, so we heard lots of second-hand stories about the soldiers from his New England town.
The last verified Civil War veteran died on Aug. 2, 1956, at age 109. The youngest people that met a Civil War veteran and remembered it were probably born in the late 1940s - early 1950s, but they're probably extremely rare. I would say that people born after 1940 who met Civil War veterans are rare. They were still children when the last veteran died. Most living people who have met Civil War veterans are probably at least 80 (1934) now.
I recall my dad once mentioning a widow of a civil war vet back when he lived in Hot Springs,Arkansas,which was back in the 1920s,early30s. I think when she married her husband she was in her teens,or early twenties.
There may have been some still around back in the 1920s. Don't forget teenage young men and even young boys fought in the Civil War.Some were drummer boys,the real young ones at least. Heck even young kids worked on ships as cabin boys,and teenagers wound up on whalers or other ships.
It was in 1950s Northern Va and the Civil War Vet was almost 100.
There are still very few people alive tolday who have an actual grandparent who fought in the Civil War. Example: Civil War vet born in Early 1850s has son born in 1896. Son born in 1896 has son born in 1944.
The war ended in 1865 so the youngest soldiers, maybe a few sneaked in at the age of 15 or 16, so that would mean they were born in 1849 or 1850. By 1950 they'd be 100 or a little more so I guess it is possible.
The last verified Civil War veteran died on Aug. 2, 1956, at age 109. The youngest people that met a Civil War veteran and remembered it were probably born in the late 1940s - early 1950s, but they're probably extremely rare. I would say that people born after 1940 who met Civil War veterans are rare. They were still children when the last veteran died. Most living people who have met Civil War veterans are probably at least 80 (1934) now.
It was not uncommon for young ladies to marry Civil War vets back in the early part of the 20th century because once the Vet died, the widow was entitled to his pension... there were a lot of rule changes because of this practice but I do believe I read of Civil War widows pension still being paid into the 21st century!
It was not uncommon for young ladies to marry Civil War vets back in the early part of the 20th century because once the Vet died, the widow was entitled to his pension... there were a lot of rule changes because of this practice but I do believe I read of Civil War widows pension still being paid into the 21st century!
My wife's aunt, who lived in Waco, Texas, was the daughter of a Civil War veteran. He married her mother and fathered wife's aunt sometime around WWI. Auntie was in pretty good shape up until about 10 years ago when she passed away.
She said her dad served in Terry's Texas Rangers, but didn't offer up much information since he died when she was very young.
She lost track of what happened to her dad's papers & firearms that he carried in the war.
I have very long generations in my family. My great uncle was born in 1839, and served in the 1st Arkansas Light Artillery, CSA. My mother was born in 1907, the youngest child of a youngest child who was born in 1869, and remembered her uncle well. He died in 1915, when she was a child, and my mother lived to be almost 90.
My great uncle's younger brother was born in 1849, and while he didn't serve, he and an in-between brother helped bury the dead and evacuate the wounded from a small battle fought within about a mile of their rural home, when they were 14 and 17, in 1863. Their older brother was at Chickamauga around the same time, and as soon as the 17 year old brother turned 18, he, too, enlisted - but in the Union Army. He died shortly before his 19th birthday, of disease, on the same day that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
The younger brother lived until 1944, and my eldest first cousins clearly remember him and his stories of our family's experiences during the Civil War.
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