As bedraggled Union troops retreated to their camp along ... all the way to President Abraham Lincoln and resulted in the drummer boy receiving the Medal of Honor on Sept. 16, 1863 -- two months ...

He served as head drummer boy, after “knocking the ... He was mustered out the next year, one of nearly 2,000,000 Union veterans. He became a wood turner, worked quietly at his trade for 65 ...

Brientnall enlisted in the Union Army in 1861 ... "He's not the drummer boy in the play," says Wood, "because the drummer boy in the play does not survive the play." Wood adds, however, that ...

Brendan Synnamon, whose family operates The Union Drummer Boy in Peddler’s Village in Lahaska ... device for carrying the powder) out of balsa wood, so it wouldn’t be real wood,” he said.

skewing our view of the Union Army up to the present day. As a political and cultural symbol, the boy soldier or drummer boy resonated in the U.S. in ways it simply could not in the Confederacy.

The rule in the Union Army was ... seen pictures of a boy walking beside the marching soldiers, beating his drum to keep them together. But this wasn’t the drummer’s most important — or ...

enlisted in the Union Army at the raw age of 12 on April 19, 1861, according to military records. The 4-foot- 10-inch boy from Albany became a musician, tasked with keeping the beat of a drum in ...

where he won over the Union’s officers and let him follow the regiment and adopted him as a mascot and drummer boy. Seats was about the same age as the drummer boy when he first picked up his ...