A 116-year-old U.S. Civil War veteran on his deathbed with a cigar in his teeth. Houston, Texas, 1959.
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Despite his old age and appearance, the man in the image, Walter Washington Williams, was never verified.
He claimed to be a foragemaster in Hoods Brigade.
A journalist, Lowell K. Bridwell said he ''Couldn't find one single scrap" of evidence confirming this. Its Unlikely
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