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Subject: [MIWAYNE] CWV CLOVESE, JOSEPH 1844-1951 LAST NEGRO CIVIL WAR VET DEAD
Date: 2 May 2002 23:46:02 -0600

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Surnames: Clovese
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Everett Daily Herald
7/14/1951
(Would like to hear from any of the family of this old soldier)

LAST NEGRO CIVIL WAR VET DIES AT 107; BORN SLAVE

Dearborn, Mich, July 14 1951- Joseph (Uncle Joe) Clovese, who was the last surviving Negro member of the Union Army in the Civil War, died yesterday at the Dearborn Veterans Hospital. Clovese, who was 107 years old last January 30, also was Michigan's last survivor of the war between the states. His home was in Pontiac. The death left fiven Union survivors, Sixteen Confederate veterans still survive. Born in salvery on a plantation in St. Bernard Parish, La., Clovese deserted his master in his early teens to join the Union Army during the Siege of Vicksburg. He stayed with the Northern Army, first as a drummer boy, later as an infantryman. He was a private in Co. "C", 63rd Colored Infantry Regiment.

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