Lincoln Assassination Eyewitness

[peilthetraveler]

Thought you guys might enjoy this.

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[Lucrum]

Some more relevant trivia

Last known Union veteran, Albert Woolson, died 8/2/1956, age 109

Last known Confederate veteran, John Salling*, died 3/16/1958, age 112

 

[peilthetraveler]

I suppose in the year 2100 they will have someone on TV that witnessed 9/11.

 

[AK Forty Seven]

Quote from Lucrum:

Some more relevant trivia

Last known Union veteran AND HERO, Albert Woolson, died 8/2/1956, age 109

Last known Confederate TREASONOUS TRAITOR, John Salling*, died 3/16/1958, age 112 .(Should have been hung at the end of the war)

 

[jeb9999]

Quote from Lucrum:

Some more relevant trivia

Last known Union veteran, Albert Woolson, died 8/2/1956, age 109

Last known Confederate veteran, John Salling*, died 3/16/1958, age 112

The last known Union widow, Gertrude Janeway, died 01/17/2003.

The last admitted Confederate widow, Maudie Cecilia Hopkins, died 08/17/2008. There might be more, but they won't own up to it.


From the April 9th, 2011 The Economist: "WHEN GERTRUDE JANEWAY died in 2003, she was still getting a monthly cheque for $70 from the Veterans Administration—for a military pension earned by her late husband, John, on the Union side of the American civil war that ended in 1865. The pair had married in 1927, when he was 81 and she was 18. The amount may have been modest but the entitlement spanned three centuries, illustrating just how long pension commitments can last."

Nothing like a pension that lasts 138 years.

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from AK Forty Seven:

(Should have been hung at the end of the war)

Not according to Abraham Lincoln.