The Last Confederate Veteran
By Ronald S. Coddington In the autumn of 1864, with the war in its desperate final stages, a 17-year-old Alabama farm boy accompanied a neighbor returning to his regiment along
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Cruising the Potomac and Elsewhere with Brig. Gen. John P. Slough’s Brigade Band
By Ronald S. Coddington, with images from the Mark Jones Collection On an April day in 1864, in a field near Alexandria, Va., thousands of soldiers and civilians gathered to