Ghost Drummer Boy

This is a sad story.....


The Town House was used for quartering soldiers during the Civil War. A story is told from that violent era that is particularly sad.
A group of Union soldiers had captured a young confederate drummer boy. Because he was so young, the soldiers didn't want to send him to prison, for they knew he would die. Instead they decided to keep the boy with them, making him sort of a mascot.
Things went well for several weeks, but then the soldiers got bored. They started to pick on the confederate drummer boy. They made him do all of their labor, wash their clothes, clean their guns and shine their boots. The boy became so discouraged he started to cry and beg for his mother. That infuriated the soldiers, who told him to grow up and act like a man. After all, he was a soldier. The poor boy cried and begged all the more for his mother.
One night the soldiers were drinking and started picking on the drummer boy. They were tossing him from one drunken soldier to another when one of them missed. The boy came flying out of the window and landed on a rock below, killing him instantly.
Today, people working in the building say they hear strange sounds - sounds of a little boy crying, begging for his mother.
(From Ghosts of Harpers Ferry by Stephen D. Brown)

That is a sad story. It is real rotten the way that so many got treated weither as POWs or drummer boys or civilians.

It is really sad....

Indeed, I just wonder what this kid was feeling to be treated that way.

What would you think if you were a kid and got treated that way?

I've already been treated like something similar, only I didn't die.

That is a real sad story.

It is isn't it

WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
I think i'ma cry.

I got a tissue for you just in case, okay?

Sounds pretty typical of Yankees to me, huh Civ? It is pretty sad though...

There was cruelty on BOTH sides STUART.

But, as we know, Alot of people forget that little part of the war. I don't know why. Perhaps to shift blame from one side to the other.

Thats probably true, most people want to blame things on somebody else isteade of owning up to something they did wrong.

That is a realy sad story.

Truly. I wonder how many tragic events happened that we cant account for.

Just assuming that most soldiers who were captured had injuries that affected their ability of movement, and then add the medical inefficiencies of the day, and you have alot of possibilities of this reoccuring all over the place.....

Yep. There are so meny unnaccounted for tragities that it outwieghs what we know.

Yeah, GS, it does sound like yankees lol
And yes Oppie bad thing happend on both sides

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Yeah, GS, it does sound like yankees lol

Yeah, yeah. Well, me and Stuart have nothing to worry about. We are from the West where men actually act like men. And Coby too I guess.

thanks IBG. I act civilized I don't know about IBG thogh. jk.

Coby? Civilized....

does that come as shock to you IBG?

It does to me:affraid: