The Little Drummer Boy

[Steve]

With the Clem account added I feel as though I should clarify a few things that got muddled in his later recollection:

1. The defense of Cincinnati occurred in September 1862, not 1861:

http://civilwaref.blogspot.com/2013/09/d...-1-13.html

2. According to Clem's mother grave marker, she died on 02 August 1861 - four months after the Battle of Shiloh:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43771691

3. According to Clem's military record he officially joined the 22nd Michigan in May 1863, not May 1862. Also the 22nd Michigan wasn't created/mustered in until August 1862.

So, that would mean Clem had just turned 11 when he unofficially joined the 22nd Michigan. The 3rd Ohio was elsewhere and could not have been the unit he first tried to join. The 103rd Ohio took a train in Cleveland on the night of 03 Sept. 1862 arriving in Cincinnati the next day to join in the defense:

https://archive.org/details/personalremi.../page/n171

I don't know if the 103rd's train passed through Newark, Ohio, though. I suppose young Clem could've hopped on a train to Columbus, Ohio and tried to join one of the other Ohio units mustering there and failing that, jumped on their train ride to Cincinnati.

As for the Colonel/field officer on a horse he shot and wounded at Chickamauga, my two guesses based on the 22nd Michigan's location in the battle are

1. Major William H. Mynhier of the 5th Kentucky who was shot in the thigh about an inch from his hip and took until Feb. 1864 to recover from his wound.

       

2. Colonel John H. Kelly, who while not wounded had his horse shot out from under him:

https://archive.org/details/alabamahisto...nt/page/66

GustD45, I guess thanks for the Surratt Courier article writing suggestion... but I still think there's a little to much uncertainty to write a good article just yet.