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 ...

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.

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 ...

almost. Twenty-five fifth-graders at Waggoner Middle School in Reynoldsburg, Ohio, set out in late January to raise $5,000 to repair years-old damage to the drummer boy at the Ohio Monument on ...