This may possibly be the last from this event - well for now I'm
off to Silverstone on Friday (Renault World Series) for the
weekend, hoping to get something a bit different! Anyway thanks
for your support on this series. Music has always been an
important part of American society and it was no different
during the Civil War. Military bands were called upon to play at
recruitment rallies and their patriotic marching tunes were
sometimes a great incentive to inspire young men to enlist. Each
company in an infantry regiment had a musician who was usually a
drummer. They were relied upon to play drum beats to call the
soldiers into formation and for other events. Drums got the
soldiers up in the morning, signaled them to report for morning
roll call, sick call, and guard duty. Drummers also played at
night to signal lights out or "taps". The most important use of
drums was on the battlefield where they were used to communicate
orders from the commanding officers and signal troop movement.
Civil War drums were ma