"Charles "Charley" King" Topic
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| Tango01 | 23 Jun 2020 10:12 p.m. PST |
"Charles "Charley" King loved playing music. When war broke out, the West Chester, Pa. 12-year-old begged his father to let him enlist in the army as a drummer boy. He earned the backing of Company F Captain Benjamin Sweeney by practicing his drumming near the military camp where the company was being trained. Sweeney, who was recruiting soldiers to serve in the Forty-Ninth Pennsylvania, was impressed. Sweeney convinced Charley's father that "drummer boys were non-combatants, who generally were safer behind the lines than on the battle line and helped with the wounded." He said Charley would be kept out of danger and would be looked after…"
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| John the Greater | 24 Jun 2020 7:35 a.m. PST |
My great-great grandfather ran away from home at age ten to join the Union army. His mother tracked him down and told the recruiting sergeant in no uncertain terms that her son was not joining the army. According to family lore, the sergeant said he would rather face the entire Confederate army than that boy's mother again. |
| Tango01 | 24 Jun 2020 12:25 p.m. PST |
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completes a Confederate river ironclad.