The pension records of Union veterans were kept on index cards such as this one.Īlso fighting for the Union were several soldiers with the last name of “Solo,” including one Ohioan named Glode Solo who participated in Sherman’s offensive against Atlanta in 1864. Vader.” Among them were Danforth Vader, who served in Company H of the 3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, and David Winslow Vader, who managed to survive imprisonment at Andersonville. What’s more, four of them had the initials “D.

While we haven’t been able to find any Skywalkers, Chewbaccas, or R2D2s, we know of at least 29 Civil War soldiers with the surname of “Vader.” Fittingly, none of the Vaders from our galaxy were rebels.

Read at your own risk!)įamous names from the Galactic Civil War appear surprisingly often in the American Civil War. The first words of the opening crawl of the first Star Wars movie released are, 'IT IS A PERIOD OF CIVIL WAR.' To mark the release of Star Wars - Episode VIII: The Last Jedi, we’ve compiled some of the numerous parallels between the Civil War that happened a century-and-a-half ago in the United States, and the conflict that occurred “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…” (Warning: May contain spoilers for both Star Wars and American history.

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