[Cultural Jihad]

Gee, they just laid to rest the last Civil War widow 139 years after the last bullet was fired; maybe Sobran can lay it to rest, too, some day.

[SJackson]

Gee, they just laid to rest the last Civil War widow 139 years after the last bullet was fired; maybe Sobran can lay it to rest, too, some day.

It's a contemporary issue. Sobran's just laying the groundwork to support California's secession to form the sovereign state of Aztlan.

[nolu chan]

Gee, they just laid to rest the last Civil War widow 139 years after the last bullet was fired; maybe Sobran can lay it to rest, too, some day.

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(Enterprise, Alabama-AP) -- In stories about the May 31st death and June 12th burial of Civil War widow Alberta Martin, The Associated Press erroneously described her as being the last widow of a Confederate or Union veteran of the war.

After Martin's death, 89-year-old Maudie Celia Hopkins of Lexa, Arkansas, made public that she was married in 1934 to a Confederate veteran who died in 1937.

Her claim is recognized by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. And it's supported by Confederate historians, who researched Hopkins' story through the U-D-C Research Library in Richmond, Virginia, Arkansas pension records and data from the U-S Census Bureau.

Susan Railsback, president of the Arkansas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, says the organization has sufficient proof to support Hopkins' claim, and that there may be others like her.