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2024-10-28 16:22:43 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Williams_%28centenarian%29 https://civilwartalk.com/threads/the-last-civil-war-veteran-%E2%80%93-was-he-or-wasn%E2%80%99t-he.184789/

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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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Williams_%28centenarian%29 https://civilwartalk.com/threads/the-last-civil-war-veteran-%E2%80%93-was-he-or-wasn%E2%80%99t-he.184789/