'Under age' people have taken part in every war since the dawn of history.
Records, when kept, are imperfect at best.
People also lie and the powers that be allow that or ignore it to their own advantage.
Yes, there should be hyphens in "thirty-year-old" when used as a compound adjective before a noun. The correct phrasing would be "a thirty-year-old civil war." The hyphens help clarify that "thirty-year-old" is a single descriptor for the civil war.
No, drummer boys of the civil war did not carry weapons. All they did is drum.
By being drummer boys
The proper age was 18, but the enlistment of men/boys was very sloppy, so many boys managed to enlist. There were 250,000 to 420,000 boys who fought in the war. Each side banned boys from joining and fighting but, in spite of this a tall 14 or 15 year old could blend into a crowd of men and slip through in the hurry to form a unit. The standard forms of ID that we have today did not exist in the 1860's and there were no computers or phones to determine how old someone was, so the boys of the north and south slipped through and fought in the war. A good book on this is "The Boys War."
if they lived that long yes
the drummer boys were the ones who gave the emotion during the battle.
The Civil War began in 1861.
Hi, I am doing a report on civil war drummer boys. I have reserched a lot and have found that during the civil war drummer boys sometimes didn't even have uniforms. Some wore what ever they had. Others, wore left over uniforms that usually did not fit. If you have any questions i would be glad to answer them! For other boys it depended on the side they were fighting for.
Drummer boys were used to send messages to the soilders.
25 boys ten or under
CIVIL WAR occurs in 1861 - 1865
Teddy was 4 years old when the Civil War began.