PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - Fifty years after the Battle of Gettysburg, the bloodiest of the U.S. Civil War, a survivor of that fight marched 200 miles (320 km) from Pittsburgh to the site of the battle ...

Brought back from obscurity, the unidentified drummer boy of Independent Battery I has been identified. According to his grandson, 92-year-old John Mimnall of Columbia and other local descendants, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...