I don’t know why that came out as a double post. In any case, I just noticed that the 2003 edition of the Guinness book of records says that the last survivor of the Civil War was John B. Saling, a Confederate soldier, who died March 16, 1959, aged 112 years and 305 days. Yes, there were people living to that age. Incidentally, he was not only the oldest survivor of the Civil War. He was the longest-lived known soldier from any war whatsoever.