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"My great-great-grandfather, John D. Sisson, was the last Civil War veteran alive in Tuscarawas County in east-central Ohio when he died in 1937. My mother, born in 1924, remembered him quite well. The aged Sisson, in poor health from a variety of ailments related to exposure and harsh conditions from his wartime service, suffered from what today is called Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). He scared my mom by falling asleep and reliving battles, including the bloody fights at Franklin and Nashville in Tennessee in 1864. The English-born Sisson enlisted at the age of 15 as a musician after running away from his guardian.
Here in York, the last veteran in this city outlived my ancestor by a few years. A charcoal sketch of John F. Eich appeared in the May 30, 1941, issue of The York Gazette and Daily. The newspaper's sketch artist, Miss Betty Smyser, composed the portrait, which shows Eich wearing an array of post-war Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) medals.
The caption reads in part "Mr. Eich, who is 95 years old, is the city's last surviving Civil War veteran and he will participate in the Memorial day exercises today. So far as is known there are only two Civil War veterans living in York County; namely, George W. Watson, 99, of Wrightsville, and John Aquila Wilson, 100, Gatchelville."…"
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