Drummer Boy Willie McGee, Civil War Hero and Fraud

by Thomas Fox

On December 7, 1864, just one week after the bloody battle of Franklin, Tennessee, William McGee, a drummer boy from Newark, New Jersey, was credited with leading a Federal force to a decisive victory over the Confederates in a clash just thirty miles from the carnage at Franklin. This 15-year-old Irish-American, on convalescent duty and acting as an orderly to General Lovell Rousseau, was recognized for the capture of two guns, several hundred prisoners,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786432896
• ISBN13: 9780786432899
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher