Connecticut western news., 1914-07-02
SOLDIER AT TEN,
 IS TO QUIT ARMY
Colonel Glen Last Civil War
 Veteran In Active Service.
FIRST WON FAME AT SHILOH
Men of His Regiment Fashioned For Him - His Memorable Encounter With a Confederate Colonel After Chickamauoa-Youno Seroeant.

F1lm - TITS memOraple EnCOunISr " With a Confederate Colonel After
 Chiekamauga-Youngest Sergeant:
 AS long as the records of the United States army are kept Colonel, John L.. Clem, senior colonel of the quarter master corps, will be registered as the officer who for more than d 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 Iast link that binds the army of today to that of the sixties will have been forever removed.
 Colonel Glenn is a Union veteran. also the son-in-law of a Confederat te soldier. He was born at Newark, O.. Aug. 13, 1851. He was. therefore, not quite ten years of age when President Lincoln called for volunteers.
 The Third Ohio infantry was re- cruited from the neighborhood in which Johnny Clem lived. He was an orphan then. One May morning in 1861 the boy appeared before Captain McDougal and told him that he want ed to go to the front. But McDougal turned Glenn down. However when the Third Ohio started for Cincinnati Johnny Glen, though not of the regi- ment went with it.
 A Hsro Under Fire. The Twenty-second Michigan was at Covington. Ky. across the river from Cincinnati. at that time. The kid" from Newark sought the commanding officer and begged to be enlisted. Hs was so persevering that it was decid- ed, to take him along as q sort of emergency drummer. The soldiers pro- vided him with Il drum and q musket, the barrel of which had been cut off so as to make it possible for the child to carry it.
 At Shiloh. where Grants fame as g. soldier began, Clem received his bap- tism of fire.
 After the battle the soldiers dubbed him Johnny Shiloh" a nickname that stuck to him until greater fame was to come to him in the battle of Chiclka- mauga.
 AS at Shiloh, Clem was in the thick of the fray He threw aside his drum and went to the front with the little short barreled musket that the men of the Twenty-second Michigan had rig gel up for him. He had been enlisted as a marker and had the right to carry gun.
 Youngest Sergeant Army Has Had.
 After the battle General Rosecrans made Clem a sergeant-the 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 Clem was attached had been or dered to hold it's position. The posi- ton became untenable. and the bri- gade fell back and, in doing so, lost Little Johnny" Clem.
 Suddenly out of the woods he came like n scared rabbit and ran full tilt into Confederate colonel.
 My, but you are a little shaver to be in this business!" the Confederate officer said. But war is war, so you had better drop that gum
 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 up at Chattanooga.
 The Confederate colonel. who recov- cred, afterward said he would never get over the surprise that kid gave him."
 Johnny Clem participated in other battles. and General Grant when president commissioned him a second lieutenant of the regular army in 1871. Clem has been in the army ever since.