A bit of fun here.  


"Uncle Bill" Lundy claimed to be the last living Confederate Civil War veteran in Florida, and spent his 107th birthday at Eglin AFB, Florida in January 1955.

Uncle Billy meets the troops.




Uncle Billy is more interested in these troops:




Comparing weapons with the gate guards:




Suited up for a jet flight:




107th birthday cake:

What a crazy time to have been alive.

Lundy , William C.

BATTLE UNIT NAME:Dunham's Company, Florida Light Artillery (Milton Light Artillery)
SIDE:Confederacy
COMPANY:
SOLDIER'S RANK IN:Private
SOLDIER'S RANK OUT:Private
ALTERNATE NAME:
FILM NUMBER:M225 ROLL 5
PLAQUE NUMBER:
NOTES: none

Milton Light Artillery was organized in November, 1861, at Apalachicola, Florida. The unit fought at St. Johns Bluff and in several engagements around Jacksonville. During the summer of 1863 it was divided; Company A fought at Lake City, Cedar Run, and Milton, and Company B at Olustee, Horse Landing, and Gainesville. Assigned to the Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, it was included in the surrender on May 10, 1865. Its captains were Henry F. Abell and Joseph L. Dunham.

Wow, nice job on finding that information!  

Is this from a Civil War list that you have?

National Park Service Soldier-Sailor Index.http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/soldiers-and-sailors-database.htm

What we have still doesn't prove a thing.  One would have to go to the National Archives and dig out his service record (on micro-film) and see his listed date of birth.  Then we should check the census records to confirm his identity with that soldier and also the death record (at the county of death).

Confederate Baller.

Yes, we definitely need to check the primary sources.

Now, with a little more internet sleuthing, some interesting things come up.

"William Lundy was allegedly born near Troy, in Pike County, Alabama, on January 18, 1848 (also reported at Coffee Springs, Coffee County). He is said to have enlisted in the last days of March 1864, at age 16; Company D (Brown's), 4th Alabama Cavalry Regiment (Home Guard) at Elba; and to have been honorably discharged at Elba in May 1865, on account of close of war. He moved his family to Laurel Hill in 1890, where he and wife, Mary Jane Lassiter, raised ten children.

He was granted a Confederate soldier's pension in Florida, no. 8948, of $600 per annum to be paid effective from June 12, 1941. At some point the pension increased to $75 per month ($900 per annum), and finally, in 1953, it was increased to $150 per month ($1800 per annum)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lundy

The Florida Archives record for this photo reads, "Born on January 18, 1848 in Coffee Springs, Alabama. He was a member of Company D 4th Alabama Cavalry Regiment of the Confederate States of America Army. He died on September 1, 1957 in Crestview, Florida."

(Courtesy Florida State Archives, Florida Memory Project, rc13906, www.foridamemory.com)



http://www.flpublicarchaeology.org/civilwar/monuments/crestview/rc13906-lundy-2.jpg.php

But wait, there's more.  It seems there is a controversy over his age and whether he actually served.

"Public records don't support Lundy's claim to veteran status, according to an article by Virginia native William Marvel in the February 1991 issue of "Blue and Gray," a Civil War history magazine.

"The census of Walton County, Fla., shows he was not born until May 1860," the article states. "In 1910, he made no mention of having been a Civil War soldier."

The 1910 U.S. census provided opportunity for Civil War veterans to identify themselves, Marvel's article stated.

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, people started to claim Civil War veteran status so they could qualify for pensions, according to Marvel."

http://www.crestviewbulletin.com/news/government/special-report-who-was-uncle-bill-lundy-the-man-behind-the-debated-crestview-monument-1.234624

William "Uncle Bill" Lundy, inset, as shown on the cover of the August 1957 issue of "The Progressive Farmer," is buried in Almarante Cemetery in Laurel Hill.




Now. of course, the paper may have a bias since it is reporting on him due to the controversy of flying the Confederate flag over the Confederate Park memorial site which honors Lundy.  Depending on which side of the Confederate flag debate they fall on, they might have interest in fomenting controversy.  Of course, this is speculative.




The next course of action would be to try and dig for any primary records.  Alabama birth records, if extant that long ago; records of the 4th Alabama cavalry; any other census data, to include that 1910 census referenced, and of course, the pension application with any supporting documentation.

A word of caution about census records and pensions.  The Federal government awarded pensions only to Federal veterans.  If you fought for the Confederacy, you didn't qualify for a pension from los federales.  Instead, you applied for a state pension.  So, the Florida state archives would have to be checked and matched against his name.

Fraud.