Roanoke's Last Confederate Veteran Dies in 1941

From the October 3, 2016, Roanoke (Va.) Times.

"James Washington Gwaltney, Roanoke's last surviving Confederate veteran and the city's oldest resident, died at 4:45 p.m. at his home."

He was 96 years old and lived in Roanoke's Virginia Heights neighborhood.

He enlisted at age 16 and fought at the Battle of Chickamauga.  Attended the veterans' reunion at Gettysburg in 1938, the 75th anniversary of the battle.

--Old Secesh