43:. Citing English professor and biographical researcher Dr. Jay S. Hoar, Marvel states that after Crump's death a dozen other men claimed to have been Confederate soldiers, but military, pension, and especially census records prove they were impostors. Marvel further wrote that the names of two other supposed Confederate survivors alive in April 1950, according to Hoar, are not on the Appomattox parole lists and one, perhaps both, of their Confederate service claims were faked. An extensively researched book by Frank L. Gryzb,
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thanks Dr. Jay S. Hoar, Professor emeritus, University of Maine, Farmington, who published the main modern work on this subject in 1986, cited in the references, and who gave Mr. Gryzb guidance. Dr. Hoar and others showed that an earlier 1951 work contained suspect and erroneous material, p. 10. Mr. Gryzb does not include later authors such as Mr. Marvel and Mr. Serrano in the acknowledgements but discusses their work in the
Introduction, pp. 7-8, cites them in the book and agrees with their key conclusions.
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530:, a volunteer-run web site, retrieved October 14, 2014, the author (Kim Torp is the name at the bottom of the page; also shown as the person who maintains the main page) states that "Marvel did not present his research on several other Confederate claims from the 1950s, some of which appear to be genuine." However, the page cites an earlier version of this article, which contained
290:. Those records showed he was too young to have served in the Confederate Army. Also, he did not identify himself as a Confederate veteran in the 1910 census which included a question about whether a person had that status. Nonetheless, since all the other claimants were dead, Williams was celebrated as the last Confederate veteran after his death on December 19, 1959.
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Records. Salling received a pension after providing a notarized statement attesting to his service. Moore wrote that Marvel had found census records which put
Salling's birth date in 1858. After stating Marvel's finding, Moore concluded that although existing Confederate pension records do not confirm or deny Salling's claim, the Commonwealth of
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In addition to the research he performed, Mr. Gryzb specifically thanks 47 people for their contributions to his research and writing, the
National Park Service for republication of regimental histories, 3 persons who provided editorial comments and 7 descendants of Civil War veterans. He especially
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October 6, 2010, Craig Moore, Virginia State Records Appraisal Archivist, wrote that when Salling applied for a pension in 1933, Pension Clerk John H. Johnson could not find a war record for Salling at the Library of Virginia, which held the records of the Department of Confederate Military
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Confederates was bogus. Thomas Riddle was only five when the Confederacy collapsed, and Arnold Murray only nine. William Loudermilk, who insisted he fought through the Atlanta Campaign at 16, did not turn 14 until after Appomattox.
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October 10, 1864, Albert enlisted in Company C, 1st Minnesota Heavy Artillery Regiment, becoming the company's drummer. However, the company never saw action, and Albert Woolson was discharged on September 7, 1865. Union Army veteran
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Marvel's statements are unambiguous. Yet, according to advocates for claimants who lived longer than Crump, some of the claims of these claimants may not be confirmed due to lack of conclusive evidence rather than due to debunking. In
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