Rutherford, June 27—Col. Peg Leg Graham continues very ill here. He gave his final message to his Confederate comrades today.
“Tell my comrades in the Charlotte camp I will not meet with them any more. See that I am put away all right. Would like for my Sunday school at Pineville to attend my funeral. I want to be buried in my new Confederate uniform, which the Daughters gave me at Sharon. I will soon cross over the river.”
From The Charlotte News, June 27, 1921. Daughters of the Confederacy organization gave Graham his new Confederate uniform.
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