. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . ting the long-roll before Shiloh, where his braverywas so great that he was mustered in, and was known asJohnny Shiloh. But it was on the 23d of September,1863, at the battle of Chickamauga, that he won thename which will live long after he has passed , though just passed his twelfth year, he had laidaside the drum for the musket, and, after acting for awhile as a marker, with a musket, the barrel of whichhad been cut down expressly for his use, he took hisplace in the ranks. As the day closed and the armyretired
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . ting the long-roll before Shiloh, where his braverywas so great that he was mustered in, and was known asJohnny Shiloh. But it was on the 23d of September,1863, at the battle of Chickamauga, that he won thename which will live long after he has passed , though just passed his twelfth year, he had laidaside the drum for the musket, and, after acting for awhile as a marker, with a musket, the barrel of whichhad been cut down expressly for his use, he took hisplace in the ranks. As the day closed and the armyretired to Chattanooga, his brigade was ordered to sur-render by the enemy, and Little Johnny himself wascovered by the sword of a Confederate colonel, butquickly bringing his gun into position he shot the Con-federate colonel. His regiment was then fired into, and,falling as if shot, the juvenile soldier laid close untildark-, when he went to Chattanooga and joined his com-mand. For his bravery he was made a sergeant byGeneral Rosecrans, and attached to the head-quarters of. the Army of the Cumberland, and was presented with asilver medal by Miss Kate Chase, a daughter of the chiefjustice. He was afterwards captured and held prisonerfor sixty-three days, and after his release was madeorderly sergeant by General Thomas, who had succeededGeneral Rosecrans, and was attached to his staff. Atthe close of the war he went to school and graduated atthe Newark High School. In 1871 General Grant, inrecognition of his merits, appointed him second lieuten-ant of the Twenty-fourth U. S. Infantry, and served onsignal duty at Fort Whipple, Virginia, during the years1872-73; then ordered to the Artillery School at FortMonroe, Virginia, from which he graduated in 1875 ; hewas after this detailed as Professor of Military Science atGalesville University, where he served from June 8, 1879,to May 4, 1882. Joining his regiment in Texas, he remained with ituntil appointed a captain and assistant quartermast
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