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 ...

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 ...

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.