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If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity. -- Sun Tzu |
Last Living Veterans of America's Wars(148 total words in this text)(4405 Reads)  Last veteran, Daniel F. Bakeman, died 4/5/1869, age 109 Last widow, Catherine S. Damon, died 11/11/06, age 92 Last dependent, Phoebe M. Palmeter, died 4/25/11, age 90 War of 1812 (1812?1815) Last veteran, Hiram Cronk, died 5/13/05, age 105 Last widow, Carolina King, died 6/28/36, age unknown Last dependent, Esther A. H. Morgan, died 3/12/46, age 89 Indian Wars (c. 1861?1898) Last veteran, Fredrak Fraske, died 6/18/73, age 101 Mexican War (1846?1848) Last veteran, Owen Thomas Edgar, died 9/3/29, age 98 Last widow, Lena James Theobald, died 6/20/63, age 89 Last dependent, Jesse G. Bivens, died 11/1/62, age 94 Civil War (1861?1865) Last Union veteran, Albert Woolson, died 8/2/56, age 109 Last Confederate veteran, John Salling*, died 3/16/58, age 112 Spanish-American War (1898) Last veteran, Nathan E. Cook, died 9/10/92, age 106 |
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1775:
The American Revolution begins as fighting breaks out at Lexington, Massachusetts.
1861: Residents of Baltimore, Maryland, attack a Union regiment while the group makes its way to Washington. 1861: President Lincoln orders a blockade of Confederate ports. 1927: In China, Hankow communists declare war on Chiang Kai-shek. 1938: General Francisco Franco declares victory in the Spanish Civil War. 1943: Waffen SS attack Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto putting down the uprising. 1951: I and IX Corps reached the Utah Line, south of the Iron Triangle. 1951: General MacArthur denounced the Truman Administration before a joint session of Congress for refusing to lift restrictions on the scope of the war. 1952: The U.N. delegation informed the communists that only 70,000 of 132,000 of the prisoners of war held by the United Nations Command were willing to return home. |
