Family Theater: The Last Battle

Family Theater presents Mitzi Gaynor and Edgar Buchanan. From Hollywood, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theater presents the last battle starring Edgar Buchanan. And now here is your hostess, Mitzi Gaynor. Thank you, Tony Lefrano.

Family Theater's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives if we are to win Peace for ourselves, Peace for our families and peace for the whole world. Family theater urges you to pray, pray together as a family. And now to our transcribed drama, The Last Battle, starring Edgar Buchanan as

the narrator. I guess you saw in the paper the other day where the only living union army veteran of the Civil War somewhere up in Minnesota recently took a little sick and had to slow down a bit, he's something like 108 years old, and that by itself is pretty big news. But I didn't give it much play in the heartsville picky ewll, because after thinking the whole

thing over, I decided the item was sort of an anti-climax. To what happened here years ago I mean. Every school boy here about knows a story on account of the statue in the plaque up in front of the city hall. The story of Major Haskell Summerfield and drummer boy Jerry Jackson. Of course I hadn't even been born when the trouble began back in 65.

Technically, Hart's ville fought on the side of the Union, but it was in a state that had a little trouble when the war first started, making up its mind which way to jump. So after it was over, especially following Lee's surrender to Grant and Appomattox, there were men coming home to Hart's ville, wearing gray as well as