Veteran Lifespan Notes American Revolutionary War (1775 -- 1783) Ralph Farnham (Farnum) 1756 - 1860 Massachusetts. Biography: "Biographical Sketch of Ralph Farnham '' by C.W. Clarence 1860 Barnabas Cochran 1758 -- 1864 Pennsylvania Militia. Longest living verified veteran. Adam Link 1761 - 1864 Pennsylvania Militia. Photograph / biography listed in 1864 publication The Last Men of the Revolution Rev. Daniel Waldo 1762 - 1864 Connecticut Militia. Served as Chaplain of the US House of Representatives. Photograph / biography listed in 1864 publication The Last Men of the Revolution James Barham 1764 - 1865 Virginia State Militia. Was to have had a Photograph / biography listed in 1864 publication The Last Men of the Revolution; but was not located by author Hillard. Photograph / biography listed on Find a Grave website. Alexander Millener 1770? - 1865 Enlisted under stepfathers surname as "Alexander Maroney ''. Claimed to have been born in 1760 and to have served in Washington 's life Guard (not verified) although he did serve in New York line. Photograph / biography listed in 1864 publication The Last Men of the Revolution William Hutchings 1764 - 1866 Massachusetts Militia. Photograph / biography listed in 1864 publication The Last Men of the Revolution Lemuel Cook 1769 - 1866 2nd Continental Light Dragoons. Photograph / biography listed in 1864 publication The Last Men of the Revolution Samuel Downing 1761 - 1867 Served in New Hampshire Line. Photograph / biography listed in 1864 publication The Last Men of the Revolution John Gray 1764 -- 1868 Virginia Militia. 6 months Service period was too short to qualify for pension. Granted a pension in 1867. William Taylor 1757 - 1868 New Jersey Militia. See story at Find a Grave memorial Daniel Frederick Bakeman 1759 -- 1869 Last veteran drawing a pension awarded by Congress; granted a pension in 1867 even though he could not prove his service. Shays ' Rebellion (1786 -- 1787) David Whitney 1767 -- 1867 Massachusetts State Militia. Whiskey Rebellion (1791 -- 1794) Michael Edwards 1767? -- 1876 Pennsylvania State Militia. War of 1812 (1812 -- 1815) Hiram Cronk 1800 -- 1905 U.S. Army. Black Hawk War (1832) Henry L. Riggs 1812 -- 1911 Illinois State Militia. Toledo War (1835 -- 1836) Riley Crooks Crawford 1817 -- 1910 Michigan State Militia. Texas Revolution (1835 -- 1836) William P. Zuber 1820 -- 1913 Texas Volunteers. Bear Flag Revolt (1846) John Grider 1826 -- 1924 Californian Rebel. Mexican -- American War (1846 -- 1848) Owen Thomas Edgar 1831 -- 1929 U.S. Navy. Bleeding Kansas (1854 -- 1861) Luke F. Parsons 1833 -- 1926 Last survivor of the Battle of Osawatomie. George Roe 1834 -- 1927 Last of John Brown 's forces at the Battle of Black Jack American Civil War (1861 -- 1865) James Albert Hard 1843 -- 1953 Last verified combat veteran. Fought for the Union. Albert Henry Woolson 1850 -- 1956 Last Union veteran. Pleasant Riggs Crump 1847 -- 1951 Last verified Confederate veteran. See Last surviving Confederate veterans. Thomas Edwin Ross 1850 -- 1952 Insufficient evidence. See Last surviving Confederate veterans. Richard William Cumpston 1841? -- 1952 No evidence. See Last surviving Confederate veterans. William Murphy Loudermilk 1847? -- 1952 Insufficient evidence. See Last surviving Confederate veterans. William Joshua Uncle Josh Bush 1846? -- 1952 Insufficient evidence. See Last surviving Confederate veterans. William Daniel Uncle Eli Townsend 1846 -- 1953 Insufficient evidence. See Last surviving Confederate veterans. William Albert Kinney 1846? -- 1953 Insufficient evidence. See Last surviving Confederate veterans. William Allen Uncle Bill Lundy 1859 -- 1957 Debunked. See Last surviving Confederate veterans. American Indian Wars (1622 -- 1924) Noah Johnson 1698 -- 1798 New England colonists. Last survivor of Lovewell 's War Samuel Murphy 1758 -- 1851 Virginia colonists. Last participant of Lord Dunmore 's War John Winchell Cullen 1838 -- 1939 U.S. Army. Last survivor of the Yakima War. Dewey Beard 1857 -- 1955 Native American from Lakota tribe. Last survivor of Battle of the Little Big Horn. He also fought at Wounded Knee. John Daw 1870 -- 1965 U.S. Army. Last surviving Indian Scout. Frederick Fraske 1872 -- 1973 U.S. Army. Boxer Rebellion (1897 -- 1901) Nathan E. Cook 1885 -- 1992 U.S. Navy. Spanish -- American War (1898) Jones Morgan 1882 -- 1993 U.S. Army. Philippine -- American War (1899 -- 1902) Nathan E. Cook 1885 -- 1992 U.S. Navy. Border War (1910 -- 1919) Samuel Goldberg 1900 -- 2006 U.S. Army. World War I (1914 -- 1918) Frank Woodruff Buckles 1901 -- 2011 U.S. Army. Pancho Villa Expedition (1916 -- 1917) Mark Matthews 1894? -- 2005 U.S. Army. Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War American and other Allied forces were involved in the Polar Bear Expedition which began during World War I and continued into the Russian Civil War Harold Gunnes 1899 -- 2003 Served in a naval brigade attached to the 339th Infantry Regiment as part of American Expeditionary Force North Russia. Warren V. Hileman 1901 -- 2005 Served in the 27th Infantry Regiment as part of the American Expeditionary Force Siberia. Spanish Civil War (1936 -- 1939) Delmer Berg 1915 -- 2016 Volunteered in 1938. Served in anti-aircraft in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Lived in Columbia, California.
when did the last known civil war veteran died
1953 1953 1953