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This has been the subject of many false claims. The last reunion of Civil War veterans was in 1951 when there were only three left.
Albert Woolson was the last veteran of the civil war. And no he was not the last African American he was indeed white. He died in 1847. Decades after the civil war.I hope this helped :)
It's hard to say with any degree of certainty. However, the last definitively proven Civil War veteran was Albert Woolson, who died in 1956.
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The novelist Compton Mackenzie, born in 1883, claimed in his memoirs that he had sat on the knee of a Waterloo veteran as a child.