The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-06
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 IS TO QUIT ARMY
Colonel GIam Last Civil War
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FIRST WON FAME AT SHILOH
Fought Witf Little MusI<st Which Men of His Regiment FasFioned For Him - 15s Mennorakie Encounter With a Confederate Colonel After chios<anlausa-Youn Sergeant.

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 As long as the records of the United States army are kept Colonel John L. Gem, senior colonel of the quarter master corps, win be registered as the officer who for more than year was the only survivor of the great civil war in the army. When he goes on the retired list next year, says the New York Times. the very last link that binds the army of today to that of the siuties will have been forever removed.
 Colonel caem is a Union veteran. also the son1n-law of 8 Confederate soldier He was born at Newark. O. Aug. B, 1851. He was, therefore, not quite ten years Of age when President Lincoln called for volunteers
 The Third Ohio infantry was re- Uuited from the neighborhnod in which Johnny C4em lived He was an orphan then One May morning in 1881 the boy appeared before Captain AGcDoueal and told him that he want ed to go to the front But MeDougaI turned Glenn down However when the Third Ohio started for Cincinnati Johnny Qen, though not of the Tegi- meut, szent with it
 A Hero Under Fire.
 The Twenty.Ae second Michigan was at Covington, Ky, across the river from C1ncinnah at that time The skid'' from Newark sought the commanding odacer and begged to be enlisted He was so persevering that 1t was decid- ed to fake him along as sort of enierxency drummer. The soldiers pro v1ded hum with drum and a musket, the barrel of which had been cut of so as to make 1t possible for the child to carry it
 soldier began. Clem received his bap- dsm Of Ire
 After the battle the soldiers dubbed him Johnny shiloh, ? nickname that stuck to him until a greater fame was to come to him in the battle of Chicka- mauea.
 As at shiloh. Glenn was in the thick Of the fray. He threw aside his drum and went to the front with the little short barreIed musket that the men of the Twenty second Michigan had rig ged up for him. He had been enlisted as au1arkers' and had the right to cary a gun
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 After the battle General Rosecrans made Glen a sergeauEthe youngest Of that rank who ever served in the United States army.
 Following the battle of Chickamau- ga. when the Union army was retiring toward Chattanooga, the brigade to which Glenn was attached had been or. dered to hold it's position The posi- ton became untenable. and the brf- gade fell back and, in doing so, lost Little Johnny, oaem.
 Suddenly out of the woods he came Ike a scared rabbit and ran full tilt into a Confederate colonel.
 'My, but you are a little shaver tc be in this bueinessr' the Confederate odacer said 1sBut war is war, so you had better drop that gun"
 Instead, the boy fired point blank The colonel fell from his horse badly wounded and Johnny darted into the bushes Late that night he turned uE at Chattanooga
 The Confederate colonel, who recov- cred, afterward said be would never | get over the surprise ~that kid gave him.
 Johnny Clem participated in other battles. and General Grant wher president commissioned him second heutenant of the regular army in H1 CAem has been in the army ever since