The Drummer Boy of Shiloh

  • Creator: Will S. Hays, composer, and Jacob Slinglandt, engraver
  • Title: The Drummer Boy of Shiloh
  • Date: 1863
  • Description: Cover depicts fallen drummer boy surrounded by mourning comrades and other casualties as the Battle of Shiloh rages. Cover image has only sepia tint.
  • Historical Note: According to historians at the Dwight Anderson Music Library at the University of Louisville, both the publisher, D[avid] P. Faulds, and the engraver, Jacob Slinglandt,who were living in politically neutral Kentucky, worked with clients on both sides during the Civil War.
  • Institution: Kenneth D. Rose Sheet Music Collection, Tennessee State Library & Archives
  • Publisher: Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
  • Rights: Images reproduced on this website are intended for individual, educational use only. For research inquiries about specific objects or requests for high resolution images, contact the Tennessee State Library & Archives.
  • URL: https://cdm15838.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/shades/id/22/rec/1
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