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Something tells me that this has been talked about before but I wanted to dredge this one back up. The "Graybeard" regiment was an Iowa regiment made up of men that were all over forty, but Curtis King of Hendricks county claimed to be in his eighties when he enlisted! Do you think he was lying to beef up his story? The only other soldier I can think of near that age in the War would be Edmund Ruffin and he was only in his late sixties.
So what do you folks think? I'd actually like to do a whole other post on older men in the War, but for now lets stay with this.
So what do you folks think? I'd actually like to do a whole other post on older men in the War, but for now lets stay with this.
Regiment of Old Men: 37th Iowa | Civil War Potpourri
How many Regiments like the 37th Iowa were raised during the Civil War? http://www.iowahistory.org/museum/battleflags/gallery/infantry.htm The 37th Iowa Infantry recruited for internal security and prisoner-of-war duty, was known as the "Graybeard Regiment" because it was composed of men over...
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