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On this day, Aug. 2, 1956, Albert Henry Woolson died in Duluth, MN at the age of 106, the last surviving Union Army veteran of the Civil War (and now widely recognized as the last survivor of the war, North or South.) He enlisted at 14 and served as a bugler and drummer in the First Minnesota Heavy Artillery Regiment. This footage from the MNHS collection, filmed by Twin Cities television station KSTP, shows him shortly before his death playing with his granddaughter, enjoying a cigar, and recei