Confederate Soldier dies in car accident

[Palmetto]

I was reading an old 1938 edition of the United Confederate Veterans magazine and it mentioned a veteran dying in an automobile accident! It didn't add up to me, but some of these guys lived into the jet age of the 1950s.

It was crazy to think that this Confederate soldier survived the battle of Gettysburg in the 19th Century only to die in a traffic accident in the 20th....

[RJay]

If he was 18 in 1864, he would have been 92 in 1938, possible, but unless he was a drummer boy, not very many were alive 86 years after.

[Palmetto]

There were quite a few still alive in the 1930s and 40s...

The last Civil War soldier died in the 1950s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Woolson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgLUm...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Td4x...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_iq5...ture=endscreen

[DixieLandMan]

Alabama was still paying a pension to the widow of a Confederate soldier until she died 8 years ago. She was 21 when she married Pvt. William Jasper Martin.

http://www.confederate-rose.org/wido...rta_Martin.htm

[therewolf]

Sad to say this is a sign of our times.

We lose more people on the highway in one year

than we lost in ten years, in Vietnam...