The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-01
iast of inc Civil War Veterans.

From the Army and Navy Journal
 The last of the army officers who served in the civil war with a solitary excep- tion, will be retired within few years, This solitary exception. the San Antonio Daily Express notes will be Lieutenant Colonel John L. Clem chief quartermas- ter of the department of Texas. This offi- cer Is due to retire on August IS, 1915. By that time there will be no other man In the United States army who participated in the war between the north and the south, except Colonel Clem. This peculiar distinction comes about because John l.. Clem according to the investigations by tion historian Tossing, was probably the youngest person who ever bore arms in battle.s Little Johnny Clem, the Drum mer Boy of Chickamagua.' also known as Johnny Shiloh" bore arms at the tender age of 10. took part as drummer boy, eleven years old, in the battle of Shiloh, and later at Chickamauga, not yet twelve years old, rode to the firing line on cais- son by the side of an artillery veteran and performed an act of individual bravery and coolness that gave him lasting name in history. This lad drummed the charge at Shiloh. and with his short musket kill ed the confederate colonel who had him surrounded and demanded his surrender di tttD NipS' pA tii1 AeeAh'f NfS ee NA'fNfNNN mauga.
 Everybody in San Antonio" the Ex- press adds "who has come in contact with the army officers at Fort Sam Houston has met Colonel Clem. and cherishes his memory as a genial and chivalrous soldier and gentleman. He is vivacious and so- cial. but you have to be intimate with him a long time before you. find out from his lips that he ever stirred up a sensation in time of war"
 The war record of Colonel Glenn is en- tertainingly told by W. W. Carter of At lanta ina sketch entitled Little Johnny Glenn, thl Drummer Boy of Chickamau- ga." John l.. Glenn was born in Newark, O., August 13, 1851, and in May, shortly after the war broke out, offered his services as a drummer The Twen- ty-seconld Michigan regiment de- ellned to muster him in on ae- count of his size and years, but he was allowed to accompany the regiment and beat the Hong roll in front of Shiloh, fin April. 1862, where his soldierly spirit so won the confidence and admiration of the officers of the regiment that in May. 1863. he was enlisted at Covington, Ky. as drummer. At Chickamauga, having just passed his twelfth year, he exchanged the drum for the musket acting as mark CT" For valor and heroic conduct he was made sergeant by Rosecrans, who placed him upon the roll of honor and attached him to the headquarters to the army of the Cumberland. At Chattanooga he was captured and held for sixty-three days until paroled. Later General Thomas made him an orderly sergeant and att tached him to his staff. He was at Per rysvile Stone River, Resaca Kennesaw, Peach Tree Creek. Atlanta. Nashville and other battles with the army of the Cum berland. He served until the end of the war, when he was honorably mustered out. He returned to Newark, O., gradu- ating at the High School in 1870. In 1871, General Grant, who had kept himself in- formed of the movements of the Little Drummer" appointed him a second lieu tenant in the Twenty fourth infantry. In 1874. he Joined the artillery school at Fort ress Monroe, where he graduated in 1875.