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Boys Who Made Good On Fields Of Battle
A profile of young Civil War veterans from Kentucky, Virginia, and New York. Highlights include Tr OL. John H. Whallen of Louisville, a noted Confederate recruit who died in 1913, drummer boy Bobby Henderson who captured a sharpshooter at Rappahannock, a Northern Virginia boy who died after holding reins, and Michael Donoho of New York who served from 1861 to 1865 and lives in Auburn, New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John H. Whallen
Louisville
Kentucky
Colonel Whallen
Chattanooga
Robert Henry Henderson
Rappahannock
Bobby
Burnside
Army of Northern Virginia
Sam
Michael I
Donoho
One Hundred
Forty-ninth
New York Volunteers
Syracuse
Potomac
Gettysburg
Grant
Sheridan
Mr. Donoho
Auburn