Last Men of the (American) Revolution | Timeless (opens in new tab)

In 1864, while America was in the depths of the Civil War, photographers Nelson and Roswell Moore set out to photograph what they believed were the last surviving men who had fought in the American Revolution. The men were all over 100 years old. The photographs spawned a popular book, "The Last Men of the Revolution," and the Library today preserves the photographs of those last survivors.