News in Brief: Texas, Civil War Veteran Passes Away.
News in Brief: Texas, Civil War Veteran Passes Away.
News in Brief: Texas, Civil War Veteran Passes Away. Very old Caucasian man, old Caucasian woman, and others look at camera (family?). Hillbillies? Cake with Confederate flag decoration in icing, also "Happy 112... Col. Williams." Young woman guides hand of the elderly man to cut the birthday cake. U.S. flag flying at half mast atop building (pretty generic-looking, can't tell location). Wake: Mourners file by open casket of the very thin, frail old man. Plaque: "Gen Walter Washington Williams 1959." Outdoor gravesite funeral setting. Soldiers hold a Confederate flag (apparently was on the coffin?). Crowd of mourners, flowers for funeral. Soldiers fire guns in salute. (This man might have been the last surviving soldier of the Confederacy, and indeed the last surviving Civil War veteran - but it seems his status is disputed.)