Can't start em young enough, you never know when you may be needed to shoot another democrat.

"I think the best thing a mite of a chap like you can do is drop that gun” or called him a “damned little Yankee devil,” according to various sources. Rather than surrender, Clem shot the colonel and successfully made his way back to Union lines. For his actions, Clem was promoted to sergeant, the youngest soldier ever to become a noncommissioned officer in the U.S. Army, and became known as the “Drummer Boy of Chickamauga. Clem remained in the army until 1915, when he retired. He was the last Civil War veteran to leave the United States military. 

http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/biographies/john-clem.html