Burke's Silent Drum Beat
by American Landscapes
Title
Burke's Silent Drum Beat
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American Landscapes
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
This gravestone marks the resting place that is traditionally identified as Henry Burke of the Fifty-eighth Ohio Regiment, a 13-year-old drummer boy who was among those who perished in the fighting in the Hornets Nest during the Battle of Shiloh. But a careful investigation by the historian of Shiloh National Park revealed that the only Henry Burke carried on the official lists of Ohio soldiers was a private in the 148th Regiment who enlisted on May 2, 1864, long after Shiloh; and examination of the Shiloh cemetery records indicates that the “Henry Burke’* there listed was added to the burial roll after the Shiloh drummer boy became a celebrity." -- Bell Irvin Wiley, 'The Life of Billy Yank, The Common Soldier of the Union'
13-year old Henry Burke or not, this is a young man who died wearing the Union blue uniform doing his part to save the Union.
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