Joel Arthur Moore's Blog – November 2015 Archive (4)

Julian Scott was 15 years old when he enlisted as drummer and fifer with the 3^rd Vermont Infantry.  He liked to sketch pictures and frequently sketched scenes and people in camp as well as scenes from the battlefield.  During the 7 Days Battle retreat from Richmond in the early summer of 1862, his unit was involved in combat with the Confederate Army which required crossing a creek.  As his regiment retreated across the creek, many wounded…

Among the many who fell on the Federal side was little Henry Burke, the 13-year-old drummer boy, who was among those who perished in the fighting in “the Hornets Nest.”  Some soldier who, perhaps, viewed the dying scene of this brave boy, penned the following lines shortly after the battle, entitled The Drummer Boy of Shiloh.

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Aaron Stauffer  [1847-1869] enlisted in 1864 at age 17, trained in Harrisburg, assigned to infantry, wounded at Cold Harbor, while in hospital contracted tuberculosis, died at age 22 of  this illness contracted during the war, buried in the Pike/Stauffer cemetery in Snyder County, his grave marked with a Union Army flag holder shaped like a star marked GAR for the Grand Army of the Republic [Mennonite] http://bit.ly/1HNH2Wd

William Horsfall  was just 14 when he left home with three friends, without money, or a warning to his parents, and stealthily boarded the steamer, Annie Laurie, moored at the Cincinnati Wharf at Newport on the 20th of December 1861.  At the last minute, his friends had a change of heart and ran ashore as the steamer prepared to leave port.  William stayed hidden until the boat was well under way.  When discovered, he said he was an orphan, and was allowed to remain on board.  On January 1,…