HISTORICAL CIVIL WAR RESEARCH DOCUMENT
Pleasant Riggs Crump was the last CONFEDERATE survivor of the Civil War, dying in 1951 at the age of 104 years!
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A COPY OF HIS DEATH CERTIFICATE!!!!
Pleasant Riggs Crump (December 23, 1847-December 31, 1951)
Born in Crawford's Cove, Alabama, both he and a friend left home and traveled to Petersburg, Virginia where Crump he enlisted as a private in the 10th Alabama Infantry in 1864. Assigned to Company A, Crump saw action at the Battle of Hatcher's Run and later participated in the seige and Battle of Petersburg before witnessing General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, later in attendance during Lee's official surrender to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. Returning to