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t, but, mounted on the shoulders of a grown comrade, he continued to beat his drum as the company charged to victory, and at the end of the day's fighting he rode to Camp sitting in front on the general's horse, sound asleep. The drummer-boy was the inspiration of many a soldierly deed and ballad both North and South. The little chaps in the photograph are not as long as the guns of their comrades. A drummer in full dress Drummer–boys off duty—playing cards in camp, winter of 1862 Dan, of the Fifty-second Ohio; Edward, of the Second Indiana Cavalry; and gallant Bob, of the Ninth Ohio, named brigadier-general before he was killed in August, 1862. With the close of the second twelve months of the war came the first of the little crop of boy generals, as they were called, nearly all of them young graduates of West Point. The first of the boy generals was Adelbert Ames, of the class of 1861, colonel of the Twentieth Maine, closely followed by Judson Kilpatrick, colonel of