[twigs]

Very interesting observations. Thank you. I share your wonder that men who may have seen Bonaparte could be on video. I would not have thought that possible.

Did you see the story about the life of the last living Civil War spouse about a decade ago? That one also amazed me. She died I believe in the 1980's.

[Paladin2b]

Did you see the story about the life of the last living Civil War spouse about a decade ago? That one also amazed me. She died I believe in the 1980's.

Wrong - she only died a few months ago! Gertrude Janeway, 95, of Blaine, in eastern Tennessee died last year. The Veterans Administration was still cutting her a check each month. She was married at 20 in 1927 to a Union veteran aged 82.

Alberta Martin of Elba, Alabama, now 97, married an octogenarian Confederate veteran (also in 1927) when she was 21. She still receives a pension from the Alabama state government.

I suppose that when these that old lady dies, that will be the end of the monetary expense of the American Civil War.

Some of the final dates for the last actual veterans' deaths from other US wars...War of 1812 (1899), Mexican War (1925), Indian campaigns (1971).