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“Build it and they will drum.” Dedicated to research, study and comparisons of field drums. Our purpose is to collect information about historical U.S. drums (manufacture, preservation, conservancy, repair, market) for use by scholars, collectors and others. Photographs of drums, and anything related, together with informative narratives, are welcome. Interested readers will find archived postings a good resource. Reach us at emirsky@gmail.com.

FR150d Drum Major and Musicians Light Infantry 1800

PW55ds - US Mexican War period painted infantry drum

PW164d Patriotic drum with image of George Washington, with sticks

W1p50d German First Hussars on parade about 1914

SP4d Drum Major Regt de Catalogne musicians Regt de la Princesse Hamburg 1806 1807

FR128d Zouave Drum major North Africa 1880, by Detaille

PW183d-Boston City Guards drum c1824

WOa100d- Eagle painted drum of the 1812 period, possibly regular army

FR101d-Kettledrummer of the Horse Grenadiers,by Job.

FR42d-Drum Major Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard,by Charlet.

FR16ds-French Light Infantry drummers 1804

City Battalion New Jersey painted Militia drum circa 1850s

Cwd45d- Drum carried by the Drum Major of the 1st Minnesota Volunteers, inscribed with battlehonors

CWp30ds-2 - Drum Corps of the 27th Massachusetts Volunteers, November 1864

CWp168ds - Drummerboy 10th Rhode Island

PW209d- Marine Corps drum 1830s

TCWSC44 - Confederate Drummer in Winter

British 63rd Regiment. of Foot Drummer 1776

Drummer, 2nd Canadian Regiment, Congress' Own 1777

CWd47d- Union and Liberty decorated patriotic drum

CWd48d- Union Infantry Eagle Drum marked to a 58th Regiment -Company F

CWd49d- Plain Undecorated Union Drum With Maple Body and 1861 Dated Label

British Drummer, 59th Regiment. of Foot 1775

RWM14d-Wooden drum with the painted coat of arms of Connecticut on the face-Connecticut Museum of History

CWd12ds_Ellsworth_drum_eagle_side

CWd30ds_27th_Mass_Drum_copy

CWd50d- Painted Wooden Drum with Liberty and Union Mottos With Eagle

WOa203d- Painted Wooden Militia Artillery Drum

WOa206d- American Drum With Motif of American Eagle Attacking British Lion

WOa111d- Eagle Motif Painted Wooden Infantry Drum Circa 1810-20

TCW86 - Union Drummer

Pre Civil War era 1816-1860 , including the Seminole Wars, Mexican War and early Texas.

RWm9d-Brunswick Grenadier Drum and sling captured at Bennington. Mass. State Archives

RWM14d-Wooden drum with the painted coat of arms of Connecticut on the face-Connecticut Museum of History

RWm12d-Early drum labeled as being captured from the British at Bennington 1777. Massachusetts State Archives

Rwm8d-Drum with painted state seal of Massachusetts

RWm7d- Irish Militia drum about 1780

DRUMMER BOYS FROM OLD SCHUYLKILL COUNTY

Images in the Military and Historical Image Bank

CWp460d-Drummer Boy Frederick Willer, Company D, 53rd Pennsylvania Volunteers 1865

CWp400d- Drummer boy Warren S Skinner, Company A 4th Massachusetts Volunteers. Age 16

CWp404d- A Bucktail musician of the 150th Pennsylvania Volunteers

CWp392d- Union Army Band, Western theatre of War

CWp386d- Musician Michael Leak of Company E 151st Pennsylvania Volunteers, shot through both eyes at Gettysburg

CWp388d- Musicians of the 25th Maine Volunteers, Arlington Heights ,Virginia, June of 1863

CWp385d- Double cased images of union drummers one seated atop Lookout Mountain