Drummer boys as young as 9 signed on. 在联邦军队中,有10万名以上的 There were more than 100,000 soldiers in the Union army 士兵还不到15岁。 who were not yet 15 years old. 照片上的男孩威廉.布莱克被征召时还不到12岁。 William Black was not yet 12 when he enlisted. 在战斗中左臂中弹...
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 ...
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...
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...
Maj. General W.B. Hazencommanded a brigade in the Army of the Ohio and was instrumental to the Union victory at theBattle of Shiloh. His troops were also successful at Chattanooga and during the Atlanta Campaign. After the war, President Hayes appointed Hazen chief signal officer, a position...