San Francisco Call, Volume 96, Number 29, 29 June 1904 —
CONFEDERATE SOLDIER DIES.
Death Claims Southerner Who Enlisted at the Age of 12.
CHICAGO. June 28. — John Bailey Tyler of Chicago is dead at the Alexian Brothers Hospital after an illness of several weeks. Tyler, it is thought, *vas the youngest soldier in the Confederate army who served throughout the war other than in the position of drummer • boy. He enlisted when h« was 12 years old as a cavalry man, serving throughout the war in Troop D of the First Maryland Confederate Cavalry- Tyler was born in Frederick. Wd.. In 1S49.