The Last Civil War Widows
Feb 13, 2017•14 min
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Episode description
Daisy Anderson and Alberta Martin lived what seemed like parallel lives. Both had grown up poor, children of sharecroppers in the South. Daisy in Tennessee; Alberta in Alabama. Both women got married in their early 20’s, to men who were near 80. And both those husbands had served in the Civil War. But as it happens, they’d served on opposite sides.
Daisy and Alberta were two of the last surviving Civil War widows.
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