Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-05-06
Chattanooga Correspondence Chicago Eve Journal.
Johnny Glenn, the Little Orderly.

Johnny Glenn, the Little Orderly.
4 pleasant little scene occurred last eve
ming at the head quarters of General Thomas
Of course you remember the story of little
Johnny Glen, the motherless atom of drum-
mer boy ''aged ten, who sirayed away from
| Newark, Ohio, and the first we know of him,
though small enough to live in a drum, was
beating the long roll for the 22d Michigan
At Chicamauga, he filed the Office of '.msr-
ker," carrying the guidon whereby they form
the lines, duty having its counterpart in the
surveyors more peaceful calling, that of flag
man who futters the red signal, and fxes the
metes and bounds. On the Sunday of the bat
tie, the little fellows occupation gone, he pick
ed up gun that had slipped from some dying
hand, provided himself with ammunition and
began putting in the periods quite on his own
account, blazing away close to the ground, like
FREELY in the grass.
Late in the waning day, the Waif left almost
alone in the whirl of battle, a rebel Colonel
dashed up, and looking down at him, ordered
him to surrender: "Surrender !" he shouted
"Y on little id son of a-p The words
were hardly out of the rebels mouth when
Johnny brought his piece to ''oFder arms" and
as his hand slipped down to the hammer, he
pressed it back, swung up the gun to the posi-
tion of 'charge bayonet," and as the officer
raised his sabre to strike the piece aside, the
glanciug barrel lifted into range, and the
proud Colonel tumbled dead from his horse,
bis lips fresh stained with the syllable of vile
reproacb he had flung upon mothers grave
in the hearing of her child!
Su,irt r,nuoapfS +iolzad off hu SLyot
shots, and the tiny gunner was swept up at a
rebel swoop and borne away a prisoner. Sol
diers bigger, but not better, were taken with
him, only to be washed back again by a surge
of Federal troopers, and the prisoner of thir
ty minutes was again John Glen, "of ours,
and Gen. Rosecrans made him sergeant, nnC
the stripes of rank covered him all over like
a mouse in harness, and the daughter of Mr.
Secretary Chase presented him a silver media
: appropriately inscribed, which he worthily
: wears q royal order of honor, upon his lef
breast, and all men coDspire to spoil him, but
since few ladies can get at him here, perhap
5 be may be saved.
r But what about last night? Well, lik
: Flora McFlimsey, the Sergeant had 'nOthiDi
J, TO wear;" the clothing in the wardrobe of loya
+ livery was not at all like Desdemona's hand
e kerchief, "too little," but like the garments c
I, the man who roomed month over baker
e oven, "a world too wide," and so Miss Bat
3 cock, of the Sanitary Commission, suggeste
< to resident of your city, that a uniform fO
$ the little Orderly would be acceptable. Nj
r Waite ard other gentlemen Of the "Sherma
l House" ordered il, Messrs. A. D. Ellsworth
/ Company made it, Chaplain Raymond brougt
= it, Miss BabeOck presented it, and Johnny put
d on. Chaplain Raymond, of the 51st lllinoi
d by the by, a most earnest and efficient Office
accompanied the gift with some exceedingl
appropriate suggestions and advice. Th
morning happened at headquarters just
the belted and armed Sergeant was bOott
a and spurred and ready to ride Resplendel
= in his elegant uniform, rugged cap-a-pie, mo
: est, frank, with clear eye and manly face,
: looked more like a fancy picture than livir
= thing. Said be to the Chaplain, you ca
i = tured me by surprise yesterday" Now be
r 'sgoing on thirteen, as our grandmothers u.s.
= to say, but he would be no monster if we ct
!" him only nine. Think Of sixty-three poul
Sergeant-faDcy handful of hero and tn
se read the "Arabian Nights" and believe the
y :. Long live the little orderly.