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Show Aged Survivors of Our Wars. I am informed by the United States pension office that the last soldier o! the rebellion will die in 1955. That Is the estimate made by those who make a study of vital statistics. If the last veteran survives until that date he will have lived ninety years after the surrender of Lee. Kronk, who died a couple of years ago in New York state, was the last soldier of the War of 1812, and he lived considerably more than ninety years after peace had been signed. Bakeman, the last soldier of the Revolution, lived for eighty-six years after the peace of 1783. Philadelphia Public Ladger. |