QUINCY — A man buried in Sunset Cemetery will be recognized Saturday as part of the Last Soldier Project of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War.
A public dedication ceremony by the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Camp No. 56 will take place Aug. 27 at Evergreen Cemetery in Brainerd to honor Union Pvt. Elias Fenstermacher, the last Civil War veteran buried in Crow Wing County. He died in 1948 at the age of 97.
SUTHERLAND—James Patterson Martin of Sutherland was not just the last surviving Civil War veteran in O’Brien County but the last living Iowan soldier from that war.