Albert Woolson: Minnesota Drummer Boy and the Last Union Veteran at 106
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Albert Woolson: Minnesota Drummer Boy and the Last Union Veteran at 106

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Albert Woolson was born in Antwerp, New York, to Willard and Caroline Woolson. His father was badly wounded at Shiloh and taken to an Army hospital in Windom, Minnesota, where Albert and his mother followed and stayed until he died. On October 10, 1864, Albert enlisted as a drummer for Company C of the 1st Minnesota Heavy Artillery. His company never saw combat, and he was discharged on September 7, 1865. He gave his birth date as February 11, 1847, but the 1850 census lists him as a newborn, so he was about 14 when he joined.

He spent decades as a carpenter in Duluth, raised eight children, and stayed in the Grand Army of the Republic, which admitted only Union veterans. In 1949, at 99, he marched in New York's Memorial Day parade with another 99-year-old former drummer boy to lay a wreath at Grant's Tomb. He became senior vice commander-in-chief in 1953 and the last member by 1956. He died in Duluth on August 2, 1956, at 106. The GAR dissolved, President Eisenhower issued a tribute, and Life gave him a seven-page spread.

  • James Hard, who died in 1953, is recognized as the last Union veteran who saw combat.
  • Three men claimed to be Confederate veterans who outlived him: William Lundy, Walter Williams and John Salling.
  • One of those claims was disproven by census records, and the other two remain unverified.
  • A monument to the Grand Army of the Republic with his likeness was put up at Gettysburg in 1956.
  • A twin statue stands at the St. Louis County Depot in Duluth, where his artifacts are kept.

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