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04339aam a22005418i 4500 001 60A193F8152711E3AA706A77DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20130904010050 008 130718s2013 dcu 000 0ceng 010 $a 2013028772 020 $a 1588343952 (hardback) 020 $a 9781588343956 (hardback) 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E467 $b .S43 2013 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 084 $a HIS036040 $a HIS027110 $a HIS036040 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Serrano, Richard A. 245 10 $a Last of the blue and gray : $b old men, stolen glory, and the mystery that outlived the Civil War / $c Richard A. Serrano. 263 $a 1310 264 1 $a Washington DC : $b Smithsonian Books, $c 2013. 300 $a pages cm 505 8 $a Machine generated contents note: 1 Two Old Soldiers -- 2 Reunion -- 3 Old Age and Stolen Valor -- 4 Albert Woolson -- 5 Walter Williams -- 6 Old Men in Blue -- 7 Old Men in Gray -- 8 Centennial -- 9 Last in Blue -- 10 Debunked? -- 11 In His Memory-Clouded Mind -- 12 Last in Gray -- 13 Of the Dead, Speak No Evil -- Postscript -- Sources -- Index. 520 $a "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. Unknown to the public, centennial officials, and the White House too, one of these men was indeed a veteran of that horrible conflict and one according to the best evidence nothing but a fraud. One was a soldier. The other had been living a great, big lie"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "Richard Serrano, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times, pens a story of two veterans in the late 1950s gearing up for the Civil War centennial--one claiming to be the last Confederate soldier and one claiming to be the last Union soldier--and one of them a fraud. Last of the Blue and Gray sets the stage for the centennial anniversary of our nation's most difficult period, with notions of ethics and honor and also dishonesty and disgrace. 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. Unknown to the public, centennial officials, and the White House too, one of these men was indeed a veteran of that horrible conflict and one according to the best evidence nothing but a fraud. One was a soldier. The other had been living a great, big lie"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Woolson, Albert, $d 1847-1956. 600 10 $a Williams, Walter Washington, $d -1959. 650 0 $a Impostors and imposture $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Veterans $z United States $v Biography. 650 7 $a HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877). $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / Military / United States. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / United States / 19th Century. $2 bisacsh 651 0 $a United States $x Veterans. $y Civil War, 1861-1865 $x Veterans. 651 0 $a United States $x Centennial celebrations, etc. $y Civil War, 1861-1865 $x Centennial celebrations, etc. 941 $a 11 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231017021453.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722040704.0 952 $l RZPE145 $d 20190328023447.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20190207011003.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006072741.0 952 $l NBPB943 $d 20180704035156.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826081945.0 952 $l YTPG232 $d 20150509030421.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20150509013912.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20140812083229.0 952 $l PRAX771 $d 20140513160406.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=60A193F8152711E3AA706A77DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search