Details
CLEM, JOHNNY ("The Drummer Boy of Chicamauga") (1851-1937). Carte-de-visite photograph inscribed and signed ("Johnny Clem"), n.p., n.d. [circa 1863]. 102 x 61 mm., 4 x 2 7/16 in.) including mount, mounted on card with lengthy notation in old hand, slightly chipped (not affecting image, inscription or carte-de-visite); matted. A portrait of Clem in uniform, inscribed on the mount: "Very truly yours Johnny Clem." Very rare.
"During one of the great battles of the Civil War, drummer-boy Johnny Clem helped turn the tide for the Yankees by picking up a rifle and felling a Confederate colonel leading a charge. He was made sergeant at age twelve, and retired from the army a major general"--W.M.
"During one of the great battles of the Civil War, drummer-boy Johnny Clem helped turn the tide for the Yankees by picking up a rifle and felling a Confederate colonel leading a charge. He was made sergeant at age twelve, and retired from the army a major general"--W.M.
Provenance
The Cornelius Greenway Collection (sale, Part I, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 20 November 1970, lot 224).