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Simon Douglas

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Simon Douglas (c. 1843 – 8 March 1950) was a former slave who lived to become the last American Civil War soldier in the state of New Jersey. Douglas was born around 1843, as a slave on a plantation in Fairfield County, South Carolina.

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