Group honors county’s last Union Civil War vet

Clinton Condon was early Nebraska homesteader

Members of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War visited the Hampton Cemetary to recognize the legacy of the late Civil War veteran Clinton B. Condon.
Members of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War visited the Hampton Cemetary to recognize the legacy of the late Civil War veteran Clinton B. Condon.

It was a clear, warm Saturday afternoon on Sept. 27, when 12 members of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW) conducted a ceremony dedicating a plaque on the grave of Pvt. Clinton B. Condon at Hampton Cemetery. Condon, who died in 1937, was Hamilton County’s last surviving Union Civil War veteran.  Dressed in Civil War Union uniforms, the group placed a special commemorative mar…