Hello Listers, I am sending the following article to the list because I thought it might be of interest to someone on the list. It was printed in the Frederick News Post in Frederick, Maryland on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 1999. Judy SON OF CIVIL WAR VETERAN HONORED LAVALE (AP)--Albert Comer, Maryland's last surviving son of a Confederate veteran, is somewhat puzzled by his celebrity. "I just never gave it any thought, really," said the retired factory worker. "To someone else, I guess it would be a big deal." To the Sons of Confederate Veterans, it's fantastic. The descendants organization recognizes just four other living sons of Southern Civil War soldiers nationwide. "This is a very big deal for us," member John Millirons said. "You don't see too many of these coming down the pike anymore." Mr. Comer, 78, will be inducted into a Maryland chapter of the club at a ceremony near Gettysburg, Pa., on Saturday. The Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. retiree is more accustomed to expressions of disbelief when he reveals that his father fought for the Confederacy. "When I would tell people, they thought I was pulling their leg," he said. James J. Comer joined the Confederate Army at 14, serving as the youngest infantryman in Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson's 33rd Brigade. After the war, he returned home to Virginia's Shenandoah Valley and raised a family. After his first wife died, Mr. Comer took another, Lucy Sly, 34 years his junior. They had seven children, including Albert, the youngest, who was born in 1921 when his father was 74 years old. Albert's niece, Nancy Lantz of Ridgeley, W. Va., documented her grandfather's military service. When she met Mr. Millirons and some other members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans earlier this summer in Gettysburg, she relayed her family history.