happy? – Dec 19 (last Civil War vet)

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happy? – Dec 19 (last Civil War vet)

19 Dec 05 - 09:30 AM (#1630514)
Subject: happy? – Dec 19 (last Civil War vet)
From: Abby Sale

Walter Williams died 12/19/1959
at, it seems, only age 104, not 117 as he claimed.


          For I stole California from the Mexican land
          Fought in the bloody Civil War
          Yes I even killed my brother
          And so many others
          And I ain't marchin' anymore.
  
                  Appropriately, Phil Ochs, "I Ain't Marchin' Anymore" (1965),
                  DigTrad filename[ AINTMRCH