Dec 01, 2011 - Sale 2263

Sale 2263 - Lot 108

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(CIVIL WAR.) Rockwood, George G.; photographer. Sergeant John Clem, Our Youngest Soldier. Carte-de-visite photograph, 3 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches, on original photographer's mount, with long biographical caption on verso; 2 faint diagonal creases in image area. New York, [1863]
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Clem informally joined the 22nd Michigan Infantry as mascot and drummer boy. In 1863, at the age of twelve, he shot a Confederate colonel at Chickamauga, earning a promotion to sergeant and celebrity status.