OBIT: David C. PLOWMAN, 1945, native of Blair County, PA File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Richard Boyer Copyright 2007. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ ________________________________________________ DAVID C. PLOWMAN Cambria County's Last Survivor of Civil War Dead at Age of 98 David C. Plowman, Cambria County's last surviving veteran of the Civil War, died at Gallitzin last Monday morning at the age of 98. His death came unexpectedly at the home of his son, Edward Plowman, to which he returned recently after spending more than a month under observation at Mercy Hospital, Altoona. He was hospitalized after a fall late in January. Upon the occasion of his 98th anniversary last Feb. 1, he had expressed the hope that he would live to the century mark, and to see the "Yanks beat the Heinies." He enlisted in the Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry as a member of Company F, at Johnstown on Jan. 1, 1864. He was wounded at Petersburg, Va., on June 18, 1864; he saw Gen. Robert E. Lee of the Confederate Army surrender to Gen. U. S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Va., April 9, 1865, and was honorably discharged on June 27, 1865. Several weeks after the end of the conflict he shook hands with President Lincoln at Washington, D.C., and this, he always recalled, was one of his proudest moments. He was born at Dry Run, Blair County, on Feb. 2, 1847, and as a boy moved to Gallitzin, where he took care of livestock for coal companies. He was 17 years old when he enlisted. After the close of the war between the states, he returned to Blair County, operated a farm there for a number of years and later resided in Pittsburgh for many years before relocating at Gallitzin in 1941. Meyersdale Republican, March 29, 1945