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Leather bound album with embossed gilt lettering on front cover, "Joshua M. Wells Post No. 451 / Department of Ohio Grand Army of the Republic / Presented By, / Comrade Carl N. Bancroft / September 17th. 1885," and embossed gilt GAR Badge at center on front and back covers. Album measures 13.5 x 17.5 x 4.25 in., containing photographs of Civil War figures and scenes, including one Medal of Honor recipient and General John Lincoln Clem as a boy. Contents include: One cabinet card after a painting of Captain Joshua M. Wells of Company C., 113th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Credited on mount to Elliot, Columbus, OH. Wells, the namesake of album recipient Joshua M. Wells Post, was promoted to Captain on March 17, 1863, just six months before his death at the Battle of Chickamauga on September 20, 1863. One cabinet card showing Medal of Honor recipient Colonel Robinson Barr Murphy, as a child on one side, and as an adult on the other, with inscribed dates "March 1865" and "March 1888," respectively. Credited on mount and verso to Urlin's Mammoth Art Gallery, Columbus OH. Colonel Robinson Barr Murphy served in the Civil War as a musician in Company A., 127th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. Murphy was awarded the Medal of Honor for his bravery in action at Atlanta, Georgia on July 28, 1864. His citation reads, in part, "Being Orderly to the brigade commander, Musician Murphy voluntarily led two regiments as reinforcements into line of battle, where he had his horse shot under him." The award was issued to Murphy on July 22, 1890. One cabinet card of an unidentified soldier, possibly a cavalryman, with a small stamp featuring him as a Corporal during the war affixed at lower left. Credited on mount and verso to Baker's Art Gallery, Columbus, OH. One cabinet card of an illustration of Libby Prison, inscribed on verso, "Presented by Commander G. L. Anderson(?), NY 98 NY Vols." One train schedule card, 4.25 x 5.75 in., with illustrated American flag, GAR badge, and letters between Erskine Carson, Esq. and Ohio Governor Joseph B. Foraker, stating that no captured rebel flags should be surrendered, on obverse. Ink inscription at bottom reads "Erskine Carson, member of Wells Post.#451. G.A.R., Died July 25 1894." Verso features "Foraker Club Special Train" schedule for a round trip from Columbus to Chicago. One mounted CDV of John Lincoln Clem as a child, with inscribed caption "Johnny Clem, 1863" on mount. Credited on verso to Baker's Art Gallery, Columbus, OH. General John Lincoln Clem (1851-1937) was barely 10 years old before he attempted to enlist for the 3rd OH. The regiment refused to enlist a boy so young, but, undeterred from his military dream, Clem tried a second time in the 22nd MI Infantry. The regiment accepted and made him their mascot and honorary drummer boy. The officers payed for his salary until he was able to enlist in 1863. Clem's young age did not shield him from battle. He carried a sawed off musket, and at the battle of Horseshoe Ridge Clem shot a colonel. His young age attracted the attention of General Rosecrans and won the hearts of the American public. Apocryphal stories of his war experience circulated including his drum being destroyed at the Battle of Shiloh and surviving three close bullets that tore through his hat at the Battle of Chickamauga. What is true is that Clem was promoted to sergeant, becoming the youngest soldier ever to become a noncommissioned officer in the US Army. He went on to fight at Perryville, Murfreesboro, Kennesaw and Atlanta, where he was wounded twice. Clem was discharged from the Army in 1864 at age 13, but sought to rejoin the military in 1870. General US Grant nominated Clem to West Point, but he failed the entrance exams three times. Regardless, Grant appointed him a second lieutenant in the US Army. In his second military career, he rose to the rank of colonel and assistant quartermaster general by 1906. He retired on the eve of U.S. entry into World War I with the rank of major gene