Discovered the work of Jay Hoar while discussing the lives of the last survivors of the Civil War on Facebook. His last, largest & best volume is about to be published soon by Higgenson Book Co. of Salem, Mass. This will essentially be a third edition of a book he published in '86, THE SOUTH'S LAST BOYS IN GRAY. This will be the last of a three volume, 2000 page trilogy. Hoar's first two volumes are entitled, "The North's Last Boys in Blue." (The North gets two volumes and the South one because the North had so many more soldiers in the war, Hoar says.)
Here's a great quote from Jay Hoar
"It's just great material, and when you tell their life stories, it's the old America."

http://www.sunjournal.com/node/228028


http://www.higginsonbooks.com/civil-war-general-civil-war.html