Adelbert Ames, the last surviving general officer of the war died in 1933, a year after my dad was born.
I was 10 yrs old in 1959 when Walter Williams, said to be 117 years old and the last surviving Civil War vet, died. He was a Confederate soldier but a native of Ohio. Along the Ohio Turnpike the pennant shaped Ohio state flag flew at half staff at the toll plazas.
He was buried in the uniform of a CSA brigadier general.
There remains controversy as to his biographical details.