He ran away from home at just 13 to join the war and, now, more than 100 years later, the Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War are honoring his service as a wartime drummer boy. The Sons of ...

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Reedsburg Public Library will host Historian Bill Schuette and Sauk County Historical Society Executive Director Paul Wolter as they present a program on Sauk County’s own Civil War drummer boys at 6 ...

I will continue this month with another Civil War letter from Victory’s own drummer boy, Pvt. Hamilton Wetherby, 111 Regiment, New York State Volunteers, Company C. He was named after his grandfather, ...

During the Civil War, drummers and buglers were allowed to enlist in the army without meeting the 18-year-old minimum age requirement for a combat soldier. Some estimates noted that 100,000 boys ...

Christian Funck, a Civil War drummer boy, is being honored by the Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War. Funck joined the Union Army at 13, was wounded by 14, and later became a charitable ...