Union Drummer Boy John Clem at Point Lookout Tennessee 1863 president portrait rendered in the grave engraver's

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Union Drummer Boy John Clem at Point Lookout Tennessee 1863 president portrait rendered in the grave engraver'sUnion Drummer Boy John Clem at Point Lookout Tennessee 1863. The boy soldier of Chickamauga rendered in the year of his fame barely twelve, sash and drum slung against a frame too small for the war he marched into, the camera fixing what the army would otherwise have lost to legend. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and