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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

But something did come up: a 2012 Times Union article describing ... becoming "Albany's Little Drummer Boy." Simon, in his late 40s, served just three months. Barney re-enlisted after three ...