Broken Drum veterans By: Harold Holzer

By: Harold Holzer

I would not assert that the recruiting officer lied to me

and Booth remained a fully rational person whose original plan to capture Lincoln was both reasonable and capable of success

to doomed Confederate leaders of incomparable valor

Broken Drum veterans By: Harold HolzerBroken Drum by Edith Morris Hemingway, Jacqueline Cosgrove Shields Based on an actual person, Broken Drum is the story of Charley King, a 12 year old drummer boy from West Chester, Pennsylvania, who is caught up in the excitement and patriotism during the early stages of the Civil War. Mustered into Company F of the Pennsylvania 49th Volunteers in September 1861, his journey begins with the defense of Washington as part of Major General George