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Former slave freed in 1865 after the American Civil War. Descendant of Betty Hemings, slave matriarch at Thomas Jefferson's plantation Monticello. Hughes was interviewed in June 1949 about his life by the Library of Congress as part of the Federal Writers' Project of oral histories of former slaves persons.
Last surviving General of the Civil War. Billy Rufus Stanford (1850–1937) – Confederate Navy. Last surviving Confederate sailor. Defended Columbus, Georgia during Sherman's March to the Sea with Company C of the Naval Battalion. [45] Adelbert Ames (1835–1933) – Union Army. Last surviving General of the Regular U.S. Army.
Eliza is considered by many historians as the last certifiable African American ex-slave in America. Moore is the only person to date whose claim can be supported due to adequate documentation. During the American Civil War, she was known to be enslaved by Dr. Taylor, according to B. E. Bolser, of Mt. Meigs, Alabama.
List of the last surviving American slaves; Alfred "Teen" Blackburn (died 1951), one of the last surviving enslaved Americans; Cudjoe Lewis (died 1935), one of the last survivors of the trans-Atlantic slave trade; Eliza Moore (died 1948), one of the last living African Americans proven to have been born into slavery in the United States.
Maudie White Hopkins (née Maudie Cecelia Acklin; December 7, 1914 – August 17, 2008) is believed to have been the oldest surviving widow of a Confederate soldier. At the time of her death, she was the oldest publicly known Civil War widow, although others were believed to be alive but unidentified.
Redoshi (c. 1848 – 1937) was a West African woman who was enslaved and smuggled to the U.S. state of Alabama as a girl in 1860. Until a later surviving claimant, Matilda McCrear, was announced in 2020, she was considered to have been the last surviving victim of the transatlantic slave trade. [1]
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The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.