Albert Woolson was born on Feb. 11, 1847 on a small New York state farm. His father, Willard, was a carpenter and a musician in a traveling band. When President Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 ...

The last survivor of the Union Army will be honored with a ceremony and dinner Tuesday at the Depot, where the Civil War has been featured throughout the summer with the displaying of the replica ...

On Veterans Day 59 years after he died and 150 years after he served in the Union Army, Albert Woolson received military honors once again Wednesday at Duluth's Park Hill Cemetery, where he is buried.

Aug. 10—Local Civil War buffs will be in attendance during public events Saturday in Duluth to honor a man who, when he died in 1956, was the nation's last Union soldier. Albert Woolson lived to age ...

Albert Woolson was only 17 when he joined the Army. It was October 1864, the war was almost over—and Albert felt he had to hurry for his share of glory. His father, a New York man, had lost a leg at ...

"Richard Serrano, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times, pens a story of two veterans in the late 1950s gearing up for the Civil War centennial--one claiming to be the last ...