Time is a weird thing sometimes

[redbird]

Today's Newsday carried an Associated Press obituary of a Confederate widow, 133 years after the American Civil War ended. The Web tells me that the last Union widow died in her log cabin in 2003. I put it that way only because the obituary in today's paper noted that this woman only talked to the press after reading a story claiming that someone else who had died was the last living Confederate widow; Janeway may not have been the last Union widow, though if so, any left appear to be keeping quiet.

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[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Hard to really think of her as a Civil War widow, though, when she married an 86-year-old at 19. Still, it's pretty mind-boggling to even think that until yesterday you could have talked to someone who'd known a Civil War veteran well.