The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1866-03-31
WHOLE No. $50.
Little johnny Glenn.

OF course you remember the story of lit
tie Johnny Glen, the motherIess atom of a
drummer boy, aged ten, who sstrayed away
from Newark, Ohio; and tbs first We knew
of him, though small enough to live in a
drum, was beating the long roll for the 22d
Michigan. At Chickamauga, he filed the
Office of marker carrying the guidon
whereby they form the lines; duty having
its counterpartin the surveyors more peace-
ful calling, in the flag who fiutters the
red signal along the mstes and bounds. On
the Sunday of the battle, the little fellows
occupation gone, he picked up 3 gun that
had fallen from some dying haad, provided
himself with ammunition, and began put
ting In the periods quits on his own account.
blazing away close to tbs ground, like
freely In the grass. Late ia the waning
day. the waif left almost alone in the whirl
of the battle, a rebel Colonel dashed up, and
looking down at him. ordered him to sur
render: Surrender % he shouted, s'you
little id son OF al" The words
were hardly out of his mouth. when JOHNNY
brought his piece to ''ordsr arms,'' and, as
his hand sHWEd down to the hammer, he
pressed 1t hask, swung Up the gun to the
position .as.scharge bayonet," aud as the
officer raised his sabre to strike the piece
aside, the CHANGING barrel lifted into range,
and the proud colonel tumbled from his
horse, his lips fresh stained with the sylla-
bis of V4s reproach he had flung on moth
er's grave in the hearing of her child A
few swift moments licked on by musket-
shots, and the tiny gunner was swept up
by rebel swoop and borne away prison
err. Soldiers, bigger but not better, we're
taken with him only to be washed back
again by a surge of Federal troopers, and
the prisoner of thirty minutes was again
John Glenn ''of ours" and Gen. Rosecrans
made him sergeant, and the stripes of rank
covered him all over like a mouse in har-
ness; and the daughter of Mr.. Secretary
Chase presented him silver medal, appro-
priately inscribed, which he worthily wears,
a royal order of honor upon his left breast;
and all men conspire to spell him; but, since
few ladies can get at him here, perhaps he
may be saved.
Well, like Flora McFlimsy, the sergeant
chad nothing to WEAR" the clothing in the
wardrobe Of loyal livery was not at all like
Desdemona's handkerchief ''too little" but
like the garments of the man who roomed
month over q bakers oven, ga world TOO
wide;" and so Miss Babcock, of the SAM
tary Commission, suggested that uniform
for the little orderly would he acceptable.
Mr. Waite and other gentlemen of the ''Sher-
man House" ordered it, Messrs. A. d. Tits
worth & Co., made it, Chaplain Raymond
brought it, Miss Babcock presented it, and
Johnny put it on. Chaplain Raymond of the
5Ist Illinois-by the by, most earnest and
efficient offioer-sccompanied the gift with
exceedingly appropriate suggestions and ad-
vice. happened at headquarters just as
the belted aud armed sergeant was booted
and spurred and ready to ride. Resplen-
dent in his elegant uniform, rugged eap-G-
PIE. modest, frank, with a clear eye and a
manly face, he looked more like fancy
picture than a living thing. Said he to the
chaplain "You captured ne by surprise,
yesterday" Now, be is ''going on thir-
teen, as our grandmothsrs used to say; but
| be would be no monster if we called him
only nine. Think of sixty-three pound
sergsant-fanoy handful of hero, and
Their read the Arabian Nights, and believe
them. Long live the little orderly!-Re6eI-
lion Record.