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The last Civil War veterans : the lives of the final survivors, state by state / Frank L. Grzyb ; foreword by Brigadier General Richard J. Valente USA (Ret.).
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grzyb, Frank L., 1946- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Veterans--United States--Biography.
- Veterans.
- Veterans--Confederate States of America--Biography.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans--Biography.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Incorporated, Publishers, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Drawing on a wide range of sources including correspondence with descendants, this book covers the last living Civil War veterans in each state, providing details of their wartime service as soldiers and sailors and their postwar lives as family men, entrepreneurs, politicians, frontier pioneers and honored veterans"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- An overview
- The union
- The District of Columbia
- The Confederacy
- The border states
- The western territories (as of April 1865)
- The territories of Alaska and Hawaii
- The "last of the last"
- Is this the final chapter?
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4766-2488-7
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