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The most recent casualty of the U.S. Civil War lived to see Obama voted into office. He is unlikely to be the last. UXO is a hell of a thing.

• cbd1984 12y ago
  The last Civil War veteran died in 1956; the last to have seen combat died in 1953. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Woolson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Woolson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hard And the last Revolutionary War veteran died in 1866. (The year after our Civil War ended, in case you don't know much American history.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuel_Cook http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuel_Cook
  • Figs 12y ago
    They're talking about unexploded ordnance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexploded_ordinance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexploded_ordinance I don't know if there's a more recent example of Civil War UXO causing injuries, but here's a news article about a man killed in February 2008: http://www.foxnews.com/story/2008/05/02/virginia-man-killed-in-civil-war-cannonball-blast/ http://www.foxnews.com/story/2008/05/02/virginia-man-killed-...
    • patio11 12y ago
      That is the incident I was thinking of, although I seem to have misremembered the date of it.
    • cbd1984 12y ago
      And I was providing context.
• cbd1984 12y ago
  Because someone hid my last comment by mistake: The last Civil War veteran died in 1956; the last to have seen combat died in 1953. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Woolson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Woolson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hard And the last Revolutionary War veteran died in 1866. (The year after our Civil War ended, in case you don't know much American history.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuel_Cook http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuel_Cook
  • darrhiggs 12y ago
    Maybe an OT: prefix to your comment would have avoided the down-votes.