Last of the Blue and Gray: Old Men, Stolen Glory, and the Mystery That Outlived the Civil WarSmithsonian Institution, 2013 M10 8 - 232 pages Richard Serrano, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times, pens a story of two veterans. 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. |
Contents
TWO OLD SOLDIERS | 1 |
REUNION | 7 |
OLD AGE AND STOLEN VALOR | 27 |
ALBERT WOOLSON | 43 |
WALTER WILLIAMS | 61 |
OLD MEN IN BLUE | 79 |
OLD MEN IN GRAY | 87 |
CENTENNIAL | 97 |
LAST IN BLUE | 109 |
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Last of the Blue and Gray: Old Men, Stolen Glory, and the Mystery That ... Richard A. Serrano No preview available - 2013 |
Last of the Blue and Gray: Old Men, Stolen Glory, and the Mystery That ... Richard A. Serrano No preview available - 2013 |