Something for the weekend. The things you find on the internet! Johnny Horton in 1958 singing his hit song Johnny Reb to Walter G. Williams, the supposed last surviving veteran of the Civil War.
Shaun Mather at the Rockabilly Hall of Fame describes the incident:
Mr. Williams died in 1959. Alas, researchers after his death concluded that he was probably a fake Confederate veteran. Williams claimed to have been a foragemaster in Hood’s Texas brigade and to have ridden with Quantrill’s raiders. Williams said he had been born in 1842. The 1860 census listed him as five years old. The National Archives listed no Walter G. Williams as having served from either his birth state of Mississippi or the state of Texas where Williams’ family settled and where Williams resided.