Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-05-27
Once Million Strong, Only 10 Civil War Soldiers Remain

a Holston preacher. He can preach
a sermon then"
Mr.. Sailing never got a Con.
federate uniform but when the
boys in gray came through Scot!
County he Joined them for a year
His job was digging saltpetre TO,
gunpowder. Never out of State
except for 18th Gettysburg Ami
versary.
me and a coupla Yankees" he
recalls, "set together and listened
to President Roosevelt. He didn't
have nothin' to start from much,
but he said he was going to see
ia light put up there that would
burn forever.
Il set up close to one of them
Yankee fellers, and I said. now
amt that mystery?' This here
Yankee took a drink of likker
and said, well, he won't never
do it"
Served at Vicksburg
William D. Townsend. los, Ola
La. walks without cane, smokes
battered pipe continuously. Ran
away from home at II, served
with Confederates at Vicksburg
where he was slightly wounded
Married his fourth wife II year,
ago. She's only so now. Z ~
On longevity: Anything
thought was fun, I was into it.
did a little drinking but never got
drunk enough to kill anybody OF
anything. Even played the horse.
some"
John Greene Chisum, 103, Fort
Smith, Ark. lives with wife il
abandoned house at old CCC camp
Joined Gen. Prices troops biv-
Eouacked near Newport. Ark, but
memory of war is hazy. Suffered
a stroke two years ago.
! Reports his outfit still hac
1 plenty of fight left, when wal
ended. MY uncle, Tom Chisum,
line recalls. killed three men witt
Ia board the day we surrendered.
/ Waterboy for Hood.
William w. Loudermilk. 1903
resident of Jonesboro, Ark, fol
10 years. At Is. he says. he joinec
J., Hoods Cavalry as waterboy. Pro
NOTED to sharpshooter, fought al
! Chattanooga. Nashville, MARKETS.
and near Atlanta.
! He never has been able to prove
his service record, although HI
covered 1000 miles travelling
Through South trying. However
the Jonesboro Sun is satisfied III
is a Confederate veteran.
P. r. Crump, 1903, Lincoln, Ala
Lives with grandson. Joined Con.
federates late in war. Recall.
seeing Gen. Lee ride away to sur.
render to Gen. Grant at Apo.
mattox in 1865.
Sight and hearing now failing
| Has been a deacon of the Refugee
Baptist Church for 70 years. Sine,
his eyes went bad, he's had tt
miss his daily Bible reading. Re.
) ceives $3.50 monthly pension from
State. Three of his five daughters
all over 70, still living.
William Joshua Bush, los. Fitz
gerald. Ca Served with Compan,
| B, 18th Georgia Regiment. Fathe
and older brother also fought TO
, South.
| Mr.. Bush's wife, many years hi
r junior (they were married whel
{ he was 76), teaches at a nearb
school. Mr.. Bush is all-out Demo
crat with keen interest in publ
affairs. Said in 1949: mo reaso,
> why I shouldn't live to 100"
Pa Way Up Yonder.'
Arnold Murray, 104, Orangebure
is. c., lives in cabin with son OF
!. farm several miles out of town
II volunteered when I was
Iyoungster because my pa an,
brother were way up yonder some
where in Virginia, f1ghtin'.
They sent me to Sullivan
Island. near Charleston. I wa
only a trainee and the war ende,
:, before I could ever get into tn
: fight"
William A. Lundy, 1903, Laure
Hill, Fla. enlisted at Is in COTE
S County; Ala. Home Guards. B
t special act of the Florida Stat
legislature, the Alabama vetera,
e got on Florida's pension rolls an
e receives $480 a year. He's sti
!. active enough to travel to famil
reunions.
George Washington Keith. 10:
Graceville, Fla. enlisted in HON
:, Guard company in Florida in 1856;
4 Says: II can't remember any par
+ ticular service I performed but
:. was subject to orders at all times,
Does remember he wasn't capture
y or wounded. ~
S Married in 1873 and father
g eight children. An active farmt
= until he was injured in an aut