Waiting with arms. For a for to fire volleys in salute for soldiers of the Grand Army of the Republic, whose remains are buried at Chatfield.
Last survivor, a drummer boy, among those remembered
Gary Calberg, state commander of Union Veterans of the Civil War officiating at Chatfield memorial service.
CHATFIELD, Minn. – Three Civil War veterans in unmarked graves were honored with a five-gun salute at a ceremony sponsored by the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. So too was a drummer boy, Charles Marion Culver, who died in 1943. Culver was the last Union soldier from Minnesota to die. He was with Company B of the Fifth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment. The graves of George Andrus, William Henry Batterson and William Perry had been unmarked since they were buried. Fillmore County, wheee Chatfield is located. is home to 626 soldiers from the Grand Army of the Republic. The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War has memorialized 215 unmarked veterans’ graves in Minnesota. More than 22,000 Minnesotans served in the Civil War, 600 dying in action and 1,800 dying of disease and accident.