Daniel F. Bakeman, The Last Surviving Soldier Of The Revolutionary War (1868)
Daniel F. Bakeman (1759 – 1869) is regarded as the final member of a 14-strong group of remaining Revolutionary War veterans and would go on to be the final survivor of the war to be handed his pension. Colonel Marinus Willett and Captain Van Arnum had the pleasure of supposedly being served by Bakeman, during this liberational war, toward its final four years. He was described as a figurehead within noteworthy political events. The man coined the term “Independence Day,” where he would awake at the crack of dawn to sling his aged musket. Bakeman could then be spotted marching about his neighborhood, blasting his gun and shouting, “Hurrah!”
Daniel F Bakeman The Last Surviving Soldier Of The Revolutionary War
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