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1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 04 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Dan John Miller. |
| Summary |
In the late 1950s, as America prepared for the Civil War centennial, two very old men lay dying. Albert Woolson, 109 years old, slipped in and out of a coma at a Duluth, Minnesota, hospital, his memories as a Yankee drummer boy slowly dimming. Walter Williams, at 117, blind and deaf and bedridden in his daughter's home in Houston, Texas, no longer could tell of his time as a Confederate forage master. The last of the Blue and the Gray were drifting away; an era was ending. Unknown to the public, centennial officials, and the White House too, one of these men was indeed a veteran of that horrible conflict and one, according to the best evidence, nothing but a fraud. One was a soldier. The other had been living a great, big lie. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Woolson, Albert, 1847-1956.
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Williams, Walter Washington, -1959.
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Impostors and imposture -- United States -- Biography.
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Veterans -- United States -- Biography.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Centennial celebrations, etc.
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Miller, Dan John.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781452696188 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1452696187 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11412097 |
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