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Last of the blue and gray : old men, stolen glory, and the mystery that outlived the Civil War
- Title
- Last of the blue and gray : old men, stolen glory, and the mystery that outlived the Civil War / Richard A. Serrano.
- Author
- Serrano, Richard A.
- Publication
- Washington DC : Smithsonian Books, [2013]
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Details
- Description
- 222 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In the late 1950s, as America prepared for the Civil War centennial, two very old men lay dying. Albert Woolson, 109 years old, slipped in and out of a coma at a Duluth, Minnesota, hospital, his memories as a Yankee drummer boy slowly dimming. Walter Williams, at 117 blind and deaf and bedridden in his daughter's home in Houston, Texas, no longer could tell of his time as a Confederate forage master. The last of the Blue and the Gray were drifting away; an era was ending. Unknown to the public, centennial officials, and the White House too, one of these men was indeed a veteran of that horrible conflict and one according to the best evidence nothing but a fraud. One was a soldier. The other had been living a great, big lie"--
- Subjects
- Woolson, Albert, 1847-1956
- Williams, Walter Washington, -1959
- Veterans > United States > Biography
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Centennial celebrations, etc
- HISTORY / Military / United States
- Impostors and imposture > United States > Biography
- HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Veterans
- HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-214) and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1 Two Old Soldiers -- 2 Reunion -- 3 Old Age and Stolen Valor -- 4 Albert Woolson -- 5 Walter Williams -- 6 Old Men in Blue -- 7 Old Men in Gray -- 8 Centennial -- 9 Last in Blue -- 10 Debunked? -- 11 In His Memory-Clouded Mind -- 12 Last in Gray -- 13 Of the Dead, Speak No Evil -- Postscript -- Sources -- Index.
- Call Number
- IKLD 13-7511
- ISBN
- 9781588343956
- 1588343952
- LCCN
- 2013028772
- OCLC
- 2013028772
- Author
- Serrano, Richard A.
- Title
- Last of the blue and gray : old men, stolen glory, and the mystery that outlived the Civil War / Richard A. Serrano.
- Publisher
- Washington DC : Smithsonian Books, [2013]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-214) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- IKLD 13-7511
