Albert Woolson the last union veteran

Albert Woolson was a veteran of the Civil War in the 1st Minnesota Heavy Artillery and is known as the last Civil War soldier. 
== Beginning and Civil War ==
Albert Henry Woolson was born in 1850 and was 10 when the Civil War started in 1860 causing him and his father to join the U.S. Army and he became a drummer boy for the 1st Minnesota Heavy Artillery Regiment, and his father was shot and killed during the Battle of Shiloh following the Battle of Shiloh where he was wounded, he later became popular during the 1950s for being the last veteran of the Civil War.
== Later Years ==
After the war he traveled to Minnesota where he became a carpenter, got married and had kids, and became a member and soon senior vice commander in chief for the Grand army of the Republic in 1953, In 1949 he and a fellow Civil War drummer boy put a flag on General Grants tomb. 
== death ==
Albert died in 1956 at the age of 106 in Duluth, Minnesotahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Woolson and his funeral was attended by Richard Nixon, a statue in Gettysburg was later erected in 1956. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7vzTiaQ8k8&t=280s
File:Albert Woolson Windom superintendent.jpg|young post-war Albert Woolson
File:WoolsonCivilWar 275.webp|young sketch of Albert Woolson