--- title: Abraham Lincoln Brigade's Last Living Member Dies at 100 description: Delmer Berg fought against Fascist forces in the Spanish Civil War. canonical: https://time.com/4246555/abraham-lincoln-brigade-veteran-dies/ author: Julia Zorthian article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-03T17:23:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T15:36:05.051Z article:section: History og:title: Last Living Veteran of Abraham Lincoln Brigade Dies at 100 og:description: Delmer Berg fought against Fascist forces in the Spanish Civil War. og:url: https://time.com/4246555/abraham-lincoln-brigade-veteran-dies/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt356a6dd2977cdb17/69888021f887dc7870e94e2b/american-abraham-lincoln-brigade-spanish-civil-war.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 6064 og:image:height: 3411 og:image:alt: American abraham lincoln brigade spanish civil war og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Last Living Veteran of Abraham Lincoln Brigade Dies at 100 twitter:description: Delmer Berg fought against Fascist forces in the Spanish Civil War. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt356a6dd2977cdb17/69888021f887dc7870e94e2b/american-abraham-lincoln-brigade-spanish-civil-war.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Last Living Veteran of Abraham Lincoln Brigade Dies at 100 > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription.  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Mar 3, 2016 5:23 PM UTC  The American Lincoln battalion of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War 1937. The American Lincoln battalion of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War 1937. Universal History Archive—UIG via Getty Images  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Mar 3, 2016 5:23 PM UTC The last known living veteran of the famed [Abraham Lincoln Brigade](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,759512,00.html) [died on Sunday](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/03/us/delmer-berg-last-survivor-of-abraham-lincoln-brigade-dies-at-100.html), at age 100. Marina Garde, the Executive of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives, confirmed Delmer Berg’s death to the [New York ](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/03/us/delmer-berg-last-survivor-of-abraham-lincoln-brigade-dies-at-100.html)[_Times_](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/03/us/delmer-berg-last-survivor-of-abraham-lincoln-brigade-dies-at-100.html). The brigade was a group of 3,000 American volunteers that fought General Francisco Franco’s Fascist forces in the Spanish Civil War almost 80 years ago. Though America stayed neutral officially, many soldiers enlisted to join a battalion within the XV International Brigade, which opposed Franco’s Italian- and German-backed forces. Delmer Berg was 21 years old when he saw a billboard about the brigade and volunteered for service, the _Times_ reports. “I was a worker,” said Berg to [The Modesto _Bee_](http://www.modbee.com/news/local/article44932170.html) last year. “I was a farmer. I was in support of the Spanish working people, and I wanted to go to Spain to help them.” He shipped off to France and crossed into Spain by 1938, where he fought at the Battle of the Ebro, the war’s largest battle. Later on, he was wounded by shrapnel that embedded in his liver for life. Berg eventually left Spain after the Munich Pact in 1939\. Franco and the rebel forces won the war that year, and the general created a dictatorship in Spain that lasted for decades. \[[_NYT_](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/03/us/delmer-berg-last-survivor-of-abraham-lincoln-brigade-dies-at-100.html)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4246555/abraham-lincoln-brigade-veteran-dies/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4246555/abraham-lincoln-brigade-veteran-dies/"},"headline":"Last Living Veteran of Abraham Lincoln Brigade Dies at 100","datePublished":"2016-03-03T17:23:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T15:36:05.051Z","description":"Delmer Berg fought against Fascist forces in the Spanish Civil War.","url":"https://time.com/4246555/abraham-lincoln-brigade-veteran-dies/","keywords":["Military"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt356a6dd2977cdb17/69888021f887dc7870e94e2b/american-abraham-lincoln-brigade-spanish-civil-war.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Julia Zorthian","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt356a6dd2977cdb17/69888021f887dc7870e94e2b/american-abraham-lincoln-brigade-spanish-civil-war.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"American abraham lincoln brigade spanish civil war","caption":"American abraham lincoln brigade spanish civil war","creditText":"Universal History Archive—UIG via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/military/","name":"Military"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4246555/abraham-lincoln-brigade-veteran-dies/","name":"Last Living Veteran of Abraham Lincoln Brigade Dies at 100"}}]}] ```