Confederate Veteran: A Tribute to Florida’s Last.

The community knew him as Uncle Bill. Private Lundy was born near Troy, Pike County, Alabama, 18 January 1848, (also reported at Coffee Springs, Coffee County, Alabama). He enlisted in the last days of March, 1864, at age 16; Company D (Brown’s), 4th Alabama Calvary Regiment (Home Guard) at Elba, Alabama; and was honorably discharged at Elba, in the State of Alabama, in May 1865, on account of close of war. He was the last surviving Confederate soldiers residing in Florida, and one of three (all Confederate) Civil War veterans in the United States. At the age of 109, Private Lundy died at Crestview, Okaloosa County, Florida, on September 1, 1957. He is interred at Almarant Cemetery, Laurel Hill, Florida