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.

Of course, the Union Army turned him away ... troops from Michigan adopted him as their mascot and drummer boy. The story tells us that the officers contributed some of their pay so he could ...

According to the Illinois State Archives, “The 55th Illinois Infantry regiment was mustered into the Union Army on Oct ... the regiment’s 14-year-old drummer boy, Orion P.

In the summer of 1861, Mankato resident Billings P. Sibley volunteered for the Union Army and served as a drummer boy through the entire Civil War. Many of the letters he wrote home, or excerpts ...

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 ...

On Dec. 11, Union Gen. Ambrose E ... then reportedly raised “three cheers for Robert Henry Hendershot, the Drummer Boy of the Rappahannock.” Hendershot was wounded a few days later and ...

In stark contrast, a full-page painting of Li'l Dan gazing over a vast land after the Union soldiers inform him he is free ("What do that mean?" asks the boy) simultaneously evokes a feeling of ...

A small Johnny Clem ran away from home at the age of nine to serve in the Union army, and rose up the ranks to become an officer, and then a general, after the US Civil War. And another young drummer, ...