[Verginius Rufus]

The battle of Sharpsburg is better known as the battle of Antietam, of course. It's interesting that a Northern newspaper is calling the battle by the nearby town--usually when there are rival names for a battle, the Confederate name is for the nearby town and the federal name is for a nearby river.

I never saw any Civil War veterans in person but remember as a child reading a newspaper report that the last Confederate soldier had died. Many years ago I heard a talk by a 97-year-old man whose father had ridden with Nathan Bedford Forrest...his father was rather advanced in years when he was born.

[Reily]

Maudie White Hopkins (née Maudie Cecelia Acklin; December 7, 1914 – August 17, 2008) is believed to have been the oldest surviving widow of a Confederate soldier.