"There was this one guy left from the Civil War. Now he was a media thing immediately; the last Civil War veteran. So I began getting interested in him and I did paintings. Then he died. They started to look up his records and it turned out that maybe he lied – and the guy who was supposed to be the 'next-to-the-last' was actually the last. But this was covered up – and Mr. Walter Williams, I believe his name was, was buried with honors."