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Instruments of War:
Music and the Civil War are inseparable. Thousands of musicians served in both armies. Buglers and drummers led men into battle. Soldiers sang around the campfires, and patriotic music boosted morale in the army and on the home front.
The youngest soldier known to have been killed during the battle was Charles "Charley" King, drummer for Company F, 49th Pennsylvania Infantry. Wounded by an artillery shell, Charley would die three agonizing days later at age 13. |