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Battlefield
Souvenirs for Children's Books, Games, Tee-shirts, Toy soldiers, Play
Guns, etc.
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A BOON TO TEACHERS &
HOME-SCHOOLERS
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Visit "Battlefield" where you will find:-
   
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full range of Fandex games. Also the popular Prof Noggin games.
For inquiries and prices e-mail us at habitatgettysburg@hotmail.com
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Reproduction maps, historical
documents, posters, etc.
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GHOST BOOKS 
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Tee shirts, sweat shirts, civil
war kids uniforms, caps, kepis, etc.
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Model toy soldiers, cannons,
limbers, rifles, revolvers, cavalry sets, pop-guns, swords, etc.
 
 
 
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| During the Civil War, boys under the age of 16 served in both the
Union and Confederate (southern) armies. Most of them played the drum,
fife or bugle. Their music woke soldiers in the morning, called them to
breakfast and summoned them to other activities. These boys did other
chores such as cutting hair, carrying water and helping the wounded.
John Lincoln Clem was the youngest soldier ever to serve. When he was
nine, he tried to join a regiment in his home state of Ohio. They turned
him down. However, he ran away from home and attached himself to the
22nd Michigan Infantry. The soldiers gave him a drum and chipped in to
pay him a soldier's wages. In April 1862 a shell smashed his drum at the
Battle of Shiloh, and he became known as "Johnny Shiloh." |
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Civil War Musket # 01864B |
Kentucky Rifle # 01864C |
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| Civil War Pistol # 01865B |
Civil War Under Pistol # 01873 |
Without a drum, he was given a musket cut down to his size. During the
battle, he was separated from his regiment. While caught on the Confederate
side, he wounded a Confederate colonel. Later, the Confederates captured him and
held him prisoner for two months. Eventually, they set him free.
John Lincoln Clem made the army his career. He retired as a major general at
age 65 in 1916. He was the last man active in the armed forces who had fought in
the Civil War. He died in Texas in 1937 and was buried in Arlington National
Cemetery in Washington, D.C., with full military honors.
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