Wartime drummer boy, 13 years old, honored at SW FL Memorial Day event

The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War is paying tribute on Memorial Day, with special honor for a 13-year-old drummer boy who settled in Fort Myers.
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Boys as young as 8 years old went to war in 1861 [The Scribbler]

Fred Dent Grant, son of President Ulysses S. Grant, left George Armstrong Custer’s 7th Cavalry just before Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians nearly annihilated the regiment at the Battle of the ...

OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: The Civil War, Arkansas and the Overlap of Generations

An Arkansas child born that year would have been 3 when the Civil War began and 7 when it ended. He would have been too young ...
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Midstate Boy Scout remakes York’s Civil War walking tour signs

(WHTM) — Tonight’s Hometown Hero is providing new guidance to learn the history of York. Members of the 87th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry gathered at Prospect Hill Cemetery this weekend to unveil ...