Last Civil War Veterans of Jackson County Event

Cemeteries--Ohio--Jackson County

This event, sponsored by the Jackson County Historical Society on Memorial Day weekend 2011, honored the last the last Confederate and Union Veterans from Jackson County Ohio. The photographs show the placement of wreaths at the graves of Barak Chase, the last Union veteran (who is buried at Evergreen Cemetery), and Abrose Workman, the last Confederate veteran (buried at Ridgewood Cemetery). The event featured Bob Ervin, who portrayed Abraham Lincoln. At each grave, Lewis placed a wreath and gave a short speech (most of which was taken from the Gettysburg address), which honored the individual soldier and all those who served.

Aaron Booth, photographer.

Aaron Booth

Memorial Day Weekend 2011

Aaron Booth

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Jackson County (Ohio)

Grounds at Andersonville, Georgia

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Cemeteries--Union.

Grounds at Andersonville, Georgia, where are buried fourteen thousand Union soldiers, who died in Andersonville Prison. Print of wood carving, which includes Clara Barton raising the national flag, August 17, 1865, in far background.

Sketched by I.C. Schotel

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Illus. in AP2.H32 Case Y [P&P] [P&P], LC-DIG-ppmsca-05602

Harper's Weekly, 1865 Oct. 7, p. 633.

Published October 7, 1865

Callie McCune

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http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/92500082/

Andersonville (Georgia)

Bronze Monument to Confederate Soldiers, Johnson's Island

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons

A photo of the Bronze Monument to Confederate Soldiers at the Confederate Cemetery on Johnson's Island. Dedicated by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1910.

David Bush

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David Bush

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Johnson's Island (OH)