. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . pool by his foot. Unmindful of his owncondition, he shouted, Let our soldiershave some more cartridges, sir—caliberfifty-four, and trudged off to the poem is based on an incident inthe first year of the war. A drummer-boyhad beat his rat-tat-too for the soldiersuntil he had been struck on the ankle bya flying bullet. He would not fall out,but, mounted on the shoulders of a growncomrade, he continued to beat his drumas the company charged to victory, andat
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . pool by his foot. Unmindful of his owncondition, he shouted, Let our soldiershave some more cartridges, sir—caliberfifty-four, and trudged off to the poem is based on an incident inthe first year of the war. A drummer-boyhad beat his rat-tat-too for the soldiersuntil he had been struck on the ankle bya flying bullet. He would not fall out,but, mounted on the shoulders of a growncomrade, he continued to beat his drumas the company charged to victory, andat the end of the days fighting he rode tocamp sitting in front on the generalshorse, sound asleep. The drummer-boywas the inspiration of many a soldierlydeed and ballad both North and little chaps in the photograph aredo! i~ long as the guns of their comrades. A DRUMMER IN FULL DRESS. COO* -- Li*5 CO, DRUMMER-BOYS OFF DUTY—PLAYING CARDS IN CAMP, WINTER OF tii [i-13] nys of ilir Uar Saija # * * # # ^T~-:-- $ ■j ■ t v~\ Dan, of the Fifty-second Ohio; Edward, of the Second IndianaCavalry; and gallant Boh, of the Ninth Ohio, named briga-dier-general before he was killed in August, 18(52. With the close of the second twelve months of the warcame the first of the little crop of boy generals, as theywere called, nearly all of them young graduates of WestPoint. The first of the boy generals was Adelbert Ames,of the class of 61, colonel of the Twentieth Maine, closely fol-lowed by Judson Kilpatrick, colonel of the Second New YorkCavalry, and by Wesley Merritt, whose star was given himjust before Gettysburg, when only twenty-seven. With Merritt. too, came Custer, only twenty-three whenhe donned the silver stars, and first charged at the head of theWolverine Brigade on Stuarts gray squadrons at the far lightflank at Gettysburg. A few months later and James II. Wil-son,
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