Meet Civil War veteran Henry Maurer.

A native of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, he grew up in the farming village of Gratz and the mining district at Wiconisco Township. In 1863, he joined Company B, 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry and participated in William Tecumseh Sherman's "March to the Sea."

A Harrisburg Telegraph photographer captured this amazing scene in May 1940. Maurer holds up a newspaper announcing the fall of Belgium to Nazi forces and that British and French forces were trapped on coast of the English Channel.

"At 93, Henry Maurer... is grieved to find Memorial Day headlines again tell of wars and conflict instead of only tribute to the dead and achievements of peace," wrote the Telegraph in the caption under the image.

By 1942, Maurer watched as several of his grandsons marched off to war to fight for the United States like he did in the 1860s.

And at age 99, he was there to greet them when they returned home in 1946. Henry Maurer passed away in December 1947, just a few weeks shy of his 101st birthday. He was last Civil War veteran from Dauphin County.