Simon Douglas (c. 1843 – 8 March 1950) was a former slave who lived to become the last American Civil War soldier in the state of New Jersey.
[1][2] Douglas was born around 1843, as a slave on a plantation in Fairfield County, South Carolina.
In 1862, during the American Civil War, he went to the front lines as a body servant for his masters' son in the Confederate Army.
Douglas became free by 1864 and moved north as a blacksmith and bummer (a nickname for foragers) of Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army.
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