Field Musicians of the Civil War

Musicians provided music during the the Civil War. Fifers drummers and buglers provided the beat to everyday life of the soldier. for information on bugles, see www.tapsbugler.com

[@xhunterxwolfx]

My relatives were both Union and Confederate soldiers. Thanks for the tribute. It helps us all remember remember the importance that history has to give us.

[@SpearDusk]

150 years later, we're looking these young men in the eye through the photos. Who would have thought of that back then.

[@Irreverent_RVer]

I am glad to see a tribute to these men, some of whom were very young boys.

[@MattyJlee2000]

i had nothing to do with this war but god i love that music

[@seabass62yearsago]

Obviously, you’re not American you don’t like the music

[@lilporky8565]

I'm pretty sure you like it *because* you had nothing to do with the war.

[@michaellaudenslagerurbanex4597]

Me also

[@michaellaudenslagerurbanex4597]

Thanks you to all VETS for your service

[@kandymann2103]

@@michaellaudenslagerurbanex4597 yes thank you

[@ChefVegan]

I’m holding my greatest grandfather’s fife right now. I live in Switzerland these days, it came with me to play.

[@galoon]

That's an eerie sound, isn't it? I can only imagine what a whole full-strength brigade marching by must have sounded like.

[@danielmorales5048]

my great great grandmother was born during the civil war in 1863 on my mom's side of the family. and my third great grandfather was with the 17th Illinois cavalry regiment

[@kadeem121]

LONG LIVE THE UNION "E Pluribus Unum"

[@joey95661]

I heard this playing when I was at the civil war field the other day it was about 9pm at night

[@militaryhistoryguy827]

My great great grand uncle started as 14 year old drummer boy in a NY regiment andromeda’s the war as an 18 year old captain! They promoted you fast if you stayed alive long enough in that war, that’s nuts!

[@cmcwar]

Love the drummer boys. Imagine having drummer boys during, I don’t know, World War 1 or 2 or something like that

[@charleschapman6810]

The pre-war militia and volunteer companies often had a small band or drum line, which became the regimental band when the companies were assembled into single battalion "regiments."The bands often sent small ensembles ahead of the marching columns to play by the side of the road and keep the step lively.

[@Dd-xt8hc]

Love it

[@RedZeroFive]

I love marching to these in Civil War Re-enactments. Especially with the sounds of the boots and canteens.

[@lindawhalen1325]

My 2nd Great GrandFather was a 17yr old Civil War Musician 3rd class with 18th Regiment Massachusetts Infantry. Company F & S. Joseph H Mantius spelled wrongly as Manteus (born 1845-1900) survived the war. His male relatives all went in too. Enlisted 08 January 1861.

[@lonnieclemens8028]

+Linda Whalen Hi Linda, thank you for sharing this bit of history with us. It makes the Civil War more of a reality to us.

[@lonnieclemens8028]

+Linda Whalen Hi Linda, thank you for sharing this bit of history with us. It makes the Civil War more of a reality to us.

[@harolynallison6876]

Linda that is something to be very proud of. both sides fought for what they believed in and died for that cause. all both north and south were victors as far as i see. to both north and south, thank you for your sacrifices, may you rest well with the Lord. refer to the Book of Psalms chapter, 144, this is the soldiers and to fight for ones country God does approve

[@michaellaudenslagerurbanex4597]

My great great grandfather fought he was in the pennsylvania platoon

[@mrslavinator1057]

Imagine them playing this sort of music nowadays in the middle east

[@tomkyle1]

Again a nice video with great music. Thanks a lot.

[@12boocat]

the drummers provided the beat that pushed and inspired men... it beat strong and hard, face to face, rifle forward

[@tootle_soup]

My 4th great grandfather was a fifer in the 34th Iowa infantry. This means a lot to me 🖤

[@erikjeffreys1087]

My great-great, grandfather was in the 126th, (sister regiment to the 111th). He was a drummer boy. Captured at Harper's Ferry within a month after mustering. Sent to Camp Douglas for a year and eventually discharged at Union Mills about a year later. He lost his hearing due to a disease he acquired at the Camp.

[@terilynnwells9326]

war is hell in any age

[@seabass62yearsago]

No shit 🤦‍♂️

[@tkdmasterbound]

Hey!! I love this video! I am a civil war musician myself, and I bought a civil war musicians shell, its so cool, i got it because when I saw it on this video i was like, THIS IS A MUST HAVE!!

[@themadhatterey]

i finally found this composition! i was looking this for so loong

[@leesengwee4692]

Some guy: Gets a golf ball sized hole in his torso Musicians: 🎵🎶🕺🥁🕺🎶🎵

[@usdragoons]

I appreciate that you started this off with a cavalry call.

[@Jechidat_Oketz]

Thanks for the good Music. Thumbs Up

[@hardtackjack]

True...it's always kindof neat when you get a photo like that. We've been reenacting and such since '94--as well as collecting books and so forth. My mom has a collection of ferrotypes going up until the Gay 90s, including so photographer's mistakes and some "goofing around" shots...really makes you look at the subjects as people rather than museum pieces.

[@Cortarelcuello]

Those were brave boys who inspired even more bravery, ill never forget them..

[@cshoresal]

An interesting series of photos! There are quite a few 16ish looking boys, but most of them appeared to be in their 20's or 30's to me. Nice. Thanks for posting!

[@FATWONTON]

Beautiful music, I can picture my ancestors gettin ready to kick some ass gettin pumped up to this music

[@mandm132003]

My 3rd great grandfather was listed as a musician for the civil war. I’d love to see a photo of him and know what instrument he played. Thanks for the video.

[@jft886]

Excellent !

[@wyattridinger13]

my great great great great great uncle was a civil war sargent and a mission in the civil war

[@toobyu2859]

Yes blutkehlchen, I realize this. That's why they always seem a little distant to us in this age. To have caught any soldiers laughing was a rare thing. And both sets of my grandparents had grim faces in their wedding pictures, the one taken in 1913, the other around the same time. And pardon ME for knowing no German at all. I'm figuring "kommentar posten" means "post your comment", right?

[@MrJimmyboy1972]

bluebelly07, i was a boy drummer in the 15th battalion the parachute regiment pipe band in 1964. by luck i didnt have to go to war at that time, did later on though, when i was a regular soldier. not very nice. also you mentioned "smile" in that situation if you didnt smile, you would cry.

[@tapsbugler]

Doing well... Busy time of the year but looking forward to next year!

[@TheLordMoyne]

Civil War surgeon Dr. Max Rossvally described a double amputation he performed on a wounded drummer boy after the battle of Gettysburg. His book was made into a movie "The Drummer Boy" in 2017. Dr. Rossvally's book can be read online here: www.middletownbiblechurch.org/helpseek/coulson.pdf

[@hankmaze4]

How I remember being in the Parris Island, S.C. Marine Field Music School in 1954. WE also comprised the Parris Island Drum and Bugle Corps. How proud we were when we marched down the streets or played in the weekly Boot Camp Graduations. We have come a long way from then......schools have made so many of our children dummies and worthless. Shame

[@DavidStanleymusic]

yanky doodle was a song from 1776 war which may have been used during the civil war but did not originate in that war

[@tapsbugler]

Drummers and Buglers are from the Federal City Brass Band

[@MyMoppet52]

@worldof00t I saw you asked about Yankee Doodle and got your response. Just in case you are not from the USA, it started to be popular in the American Revolution, but was adopted by the North in the Civil War. My best to you.

[@geezerart]

Great!!!!!!

[@FATWONTON]

while probably not barefooted, you are correct. they often wore leather skins on their feet

[@apclypseishere]

Trust me, there's much more you'd rather not see and hear than the stuff you want to :P

[@mitab1]

Damn this ost slaps

[@russ1234123]

where can i download these songs, i need them for a project

[@gusterson]

How come there's nothing with the song "Gathering Clouds" ? I love that song.

[@ktablada]

where can i get an creative commons download of this song

[@Vercingetorix2006]

Isn't that version of Yankee Doodle a War of 1812 arrangement? Would it have been played the same in the 1860s if it is? Exposure times were long...easier not to smile than to hold one for a minute or so. VERY interesting photo that. Excellent video...thanks!

[@Morena21871]

Its sad because a lot of them lost their lives

[@cshoresal]

Maybe some of the images have both "active" musicians and "alums" who had switched over but sat in for the photo op anyway? And/Or maybe some weren't "able" soldiers for some unapparent reason? I don't know, but it's interesting to ponder.

[@fatlegsdaffy9133]

Whats the third song?

[@Coolty44]

2nd song, whats it normally called to?

[@duckslayer111]

What is the name of the bugle song at the beginning?

[@Changehappens1]

whats the good drums at 1:43

[@cshoresal]

haha, I know... I spend an awful lot of time looking at images from the era in the pursuit of accurate ideas for clothing & accessories. This was a little off track, but combined the two interests... cw reenacting and f&d. It's not hard to do, really, just a few columns for the items your looking for and tally marks as you scan the images. Doesn't take long once you're used to it.

[@toobyu2859]

It is strange how every soldier of the time was convinced he must put on a serious face when taking a picture. An unwritten rule strictly adhered to. So universal in practice that it does make them seem remote. Except for those drummers.

[@thomasgriffin5340]

toobyu2859 2 minutes to expose photographs on glass plates before celluloid film was invented. If you moved in the slightest the picture came out blurry

[@cshoresal]

(sorry... had to break the post up because it was too long) I'm sure the boys would have an adult in command who would have posed with them in the group shots, and the older adults might have been nostalgia pictures after the war, but still, the numbers surprised me.

[@Bananamaltastic]

what is the name of the drum-only song at 1:54? It would be really helpful if u could responds ASAP because I would like to use it in a Civil War Project due in two days... And if at all posible do you know of any mp3 downloads for that song (free perferably)

[@bluerock12]

that true and also it's the best way to due with insults.

[@lumthegreat]

what the name of the song at 1:45

[@worldof00t]

what the name of song at 0:33

[@21000gamer]

god bless america

[@agatematt]

Newer research underway using a variety of official and unofficial records (pension records, regimental histories etc,), both North and South, now place the casualties at well over 800,000 by including those who died after their discharge etc as the result of wounds, disease or injuries suffered while in the service.

[@clemdane]

Are there any recordings of just the drummers with no bugles or fifes? Nothing against the latter instruments, but I love to hear the drums by themselves.

[@THExNEKOxCHAN]

Notice how the fife song has the characteristic flat sound common to earlier eras of music...or maybe that's just me.

[@toobyu2859]

At 2:20 to 2:28 or so is a sight I have never seen in any civil War photo. The row of drummers are laughing about something off camera. I have hardly viewed any photos of any soldier smiling, let alone laughing as they are here. It must have been a candid shot that caught them off guard. Makes them seem more like people we would know instead of the usual grim visages displayed in most of the pictures of the time.

[@sockettuem]

@rebelstang, it is Deo Vindice, not dio vindice.

[@Mr19thIndiana]

epic

[@jediknightaj]

@worldof00t Fife and drum version of Yankee Dootle

[@pwthcim]

@mynamearekid They did! I have lots of film in color!

[@MrTaylor6422]

Mr.Jari, this is Taylor Brownfield, who are the people that are playing in the background music (the buglers and drummers.) Are they a corps?

[@SaintBev1918]

they did have a good sense of humor back then

[@cshoresal]

Who is playing?

[@woody1236]

GOD they were just kids...war is hell for sure. Love the music though

[@tapsbugler]

Yankee Doodle (Fife and Drums)

[@clio2rsminicup]

yes nice !! 5***** i know more of these musics & and each time I'm impressed to note that sonorities really teh same those of the French military musics during our Revolution and our 1st Empire in France between 1789 & 1815 And even the tactics of the battles also ^^ since the 50 years which separate the wars from the 1st Empire and your Civil War had almost not evolved on the tactical level (only weapons had evolved of course)

[@davidpe9916]

what´s the name at 0:33 i have been looking ofr it long time ago...plis

[@shikada82]

Yankee doodle

[@davidpe9916]

Thanks

[@nizeprize0078]

Barney!!

[@tomshel2806]

Name of the sound at 2:51 please ?

[@ThePapo1980]

Thomas Shelby bugle and drums

[@KadirMutluVEVO]

00:35 what is music of name ?

[@somevideos1633]

-KadirMutluVEVO- yankee doodlee

[@jeffhegarty]

Are these all Union tunes?

[@RedShirtArmy]

very nice video. Deo Vindice, God bless Dixie!

[@benoit62190]

What is the song at 0:40. Thanks guys

[@kodyremer5864]

I think its Yankee doodle.

[@cameronherman-music3309]

Its Yankee Doodle Dandy, military style edit.

[@GeorgeVreelandHill]

Nice tribute. That war killed more Americans than all American wars combined. George Vreeland Hill

[@ThomasofAllTrades]

Barney!!!

[@mrslavinator1057]

0:32

[@frisbeegirl333]

Does anyone else feel like the first few parts of the video sounds like the old Barney song?

[@hardtackjack]

Haha, true...one the few times you see people actually smiling in these ferrotypes. lol

[@cshoresal]

That's what I've always heard and read, but when I look closely at these photos, I see a surprising number of men who had left 15 behind some time ago... Of those I could reasonably identify: 60 are "boys" (15 or under, although quite a few look like late teens to me) 31 are "men" (20s - 30s) 2 seem like more "mature" men... 40s? I'm not counting non-musician soldiers One group had what looked like 15 adult musicians and 7 boys.

[@y3yee]

BOP

[@rebelstang]

GOD BLESS, DIXIE! May She Rise Up! Out of The Ashes! Dio Vindice!

[@jburnett8152]

Drummer boys were usually first shot 🇺🇸💜🇺🇸

[@anibalcesarnishizk2205]

J Burnett They shall remain forever young.

[@HustlerMitch]

anyone who understands this and knows the song plz tell me "buuuum bum buuuum tsh tsh buuuum bum buuuum tsh tsh

[@Nfl233]

dang! 1:20 looks like 3 kids

[@paulanunes4741]

Gostei muito 🙎🏿‍♂️🚩 PT 🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺👮🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺

[@TheNewfyman]

wikipedia?That is highly unlikeley if wiki said it

[@SomeGuyDrumming]

the drumline doesnt sound clean at all

[@billykinsella5442]

Honors confederate vets

[@ipneedly2286]

Funny.

[@ryanberry335]

Yankee Doodle

[@wiltsmith100]

DIXIE LAND IS CURSED! I SHALL NEVER STEP UPON IT!

[@harponercam]

Studying the bridge at Old Plank way....