From the June 10, 2015, Athens (Ga) Banner-Herald "Son of Confederate soldier to be buried in Elbert County" by Wayne Ford.
A Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) color guard will be on hand for the burial of H.V. Booth, 96, who died Sunday June 7, 2015, over 150 years after the Civil War ended.
That would be considered quite the longevity had he been born during the war, but he wasn't. His father, Isham Johnson Booth was 72 and his mother 38 when he was born. I suppose there would be no use for that little blue pill or bath tubs for those old Confederates, or at least some of them anyway.
His father was a guard at the infamous Confederate prison Andersonville. Booth would say that his father swore he'd never go back to Andersonville, even after it became a national park, but he finally relented and did go in 1931, three years before his death.
H.V. Booth was a World War II veteran, serving on a landing craft in the Pacific at the battles of Guam, Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
Mr.Booth is referred to as a Real Son by the SCV. This means that their father actually served in the Confederate cause. Nationwide, there were almost 30 Real Sons in 2011. Today, according to the SCV, that number is just four.
--Old Secesh
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