DRUMMER BOYS AND FIFERS.(American civil war)Currie, Stephen
Colonel Wade, who enlisted in the Union army as a drummer boy when only 13 years of age and who is now on the military staff of General Watson at whom he shot sixteen times in one battle in the Civil War, gave several personal anecdotes, some of which were quite startling, and declare...
The Boys War With the many boys who fought in the civil war most of them lied about their age. A lot of them wrote letters or had a diary. Johnny Clem had run away from his home at 11. At age 12 he tried to enlist but they refused to let him join because he was clearly too ...
List of notable or famous drummers from the United States, with bios and photos, including the top drummers born in the United States and even some popular ...
The next day he came back to join as a drummer boy. The Journal of James Edmond Pease: A Civil War Union Soldier, Virginia, 1863 James was only 15 when he joined, but he was able to get in. Nobody really liked him cause he was unlucky. One day in the confusion he charged ahead...
Wilson was the youngest member of the band until bassist Alessandro Venturella and drummer Jay Weinberg, who were born in 1984 and 1990 respectively, joined the band. Birthplace: USA, Des Moines, Iowa Arthur Baker Age: 69 As a musician, Arthur Baker's entertain...
As the leader of studio backing vocal group The Blossoms, Love spent the 1960s singing on hit singles by artists ranging from Sam Cooke and Dionne Warwick to The Beach Boys and Sonny & Cher, but the lack of credit afforded to studio musicians in that era meant that her name was little ...
(Universal/Republic, 1997) After years of kicking around the Boston music scene, onetime drummer Sully Erna stepped up to the mic with a solid core of guitarist Tony Rombola and bassist Robbie Merrill and thus Godsmack was born. The band's self-titled 1998 debut exploded out of the gate ...
setting out, on a repeating loop of commentary and anecdote, Aina Alègre’s ontolo-graphy as a drummer drumming-drum. The drum set features a clicking metronome clipped to the cymbal stand, which just does not compass Aina Alègre’s moving, moving, moving inner energy, which opens, ...
Another little-known fact is that during the Revolutionary War, George Washington had a detachment known as Washington’s Honor Guard, whose job was to protect him on the battlefield. Though soldiers had to be sixteen or older to be selected for the guard, some drummer boys were as young ...