Born: Feb. 11, 1847 Died: Aug. 2, 1956 Military Record: Drummer boy with Company C, 1st Minnesota Volunteer Heavy Artillery Biography: Albert H. Woolson was born in Antwerp, N.Y., February 11, 1847. His father, Willard Woolson, enlisted in the Union Army. His father was wounded at the Battle of Shiloh and transported to an Army hospital in Windom, Minn., where he eventually died of his wounds. At the age of 17, Albert enlisted as a drummer boy with Company C, 1st Minnesota Volunteer Heavy Artillery on October 10, 1864. The Company never saw action, and Albert H. Woolson was discharged September 7, 1865. Woolson returned to Minnesota, where he lived the rest of his life. He was a carpenter, and later a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, a powerful political organization made up of Civil War veterans. In 1953, Woolson became the Senior Vice Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. Woolson died at St. Luke's Hospital in Duluth, Minn., on Aug. 2, 1956. He was 109 years old. Albert H. Woolson was buried with full military honors by the National Guard Armory and is buried at Park Hill Cemetery. After his death, then President Dwight D. Eisenhower said, "The American people have lost the last personal link with the Union Army. His passing brings sorrow to the hearts of all of us who cherished the memory of the brave men on both sides of the War Between the States."