. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . DRUMMER-BOYS OF THE WAR DAYSIDENTIFIED BY COMRADES HALF A CENTURY LATER The rub-a-dub-dub of the drums and the tootle-te-toot of the fifes inspired the Union armies long after thereremained in the service but a few of the bands which marched to the front in 61. All the calls fromreveille to taps, assembly, breakfast call, sick call, were rendered by the brave little boys who were asready to go under fire as the stoutest hearted veteran. Many a time a boy would drop his drum or fife tograb up the gun of a wounded soldier and go in o
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . DRUMMER-BOYS OF THE WAR DAYSIDENTIFIED BY COMRADES HALF A CENTURY LATER The rub-a-dub-dub of the drums and the tootle-te-toot of the fifes inspired the Union armies long after thereremained in the service but a few of the bands which marched to the front in 61. All the calls fromreveille to taps, assembly, breakfast call, sick call, were rendered by the brave little boys who were asready to go under fire as the stoutest hearted veteran. Many a time a boy would drop his drum or fife tograb up the gun of a wounded soldier and go in on the firing-line. Fifty years afterward, members of thisgroup were recognized by one of their companions during the war. The one standing immediately below theright-hand star in the flag, beating the long roll on his drum, is Newton Peters. He enlisted at fifteen, in thefall of 1861, and served throughout the four years, not being mustered out until June 29, 1865. The boystanding in the front line at his left is Samuel Scott, aged sixteen when he entered th
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