Jones Morgan is said to be an African-American soldier who served in the U.S. Army

United States Army

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 during the Spanish-American War

Spanish-American War

The Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, effectively the result of American intervention in the ongoing Cuban War of Independence...

. He ran away from home and sneaked into the army at age 15. The ostensible last surviving US veteran

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 of the war, Morgan served as a cook

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 and a horse

Horse

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 wrangler in the 10th Regiment (United States Cavalry

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, from 1896 to 1900. He died in Richmond, Virginia

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, at the claimed

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 age of 110

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His friend Samuel died in the battle and he put his diary in his pocket. He later received it back from a collector. He is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.
Due to lack of documents (which, according to a paper article from Florida and Morgan himself, were destroyed during a house fire in 1912), and the fact that he was underage during his time of service (however, Nathan E. Cook

Nathan E. Cook

Nathan Edward Cook was a sailor in the United States Navy during the Spanish-American War. He was recognized as the longest surviving U.S. veteran of that war . Cook retired from the U.S...

would have been as well, being born in 1885), some authorities do not recognize him as officially 110 or as the last Spanish-American War veteran, instead giving the honor to Cook, who was 106 when he died September 10, 1992.