Muscogee County GaArchives Military Records.....Harris, Henry "Drummer" October 1871 Indian Columbus Guards ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: John Mallory Land retrofit@flash.net June 6, 2008, 11:21 am ”THE GEORGIA PRESS… “We clip the following items from the Columbus Sun, of Wednesday: “DEATH OF DRUMMER HARRIS—PARTICPATOR IN FIVE WARS.—Mr. Henry HARRIS, or as he was better known, Drummer HARRIS, died, after a brief illness, in this city, early yesterday morning, in the seventieth year of his age. He has been concerned in every war in which the United States have been engaged during this century. Since the Columbus Guards were formed until the company was incorporated into the Second Georgia Regiment, he was their drummer. He was with them in the Creek and the Mexican wars. During the war of 1812, when only 12 years old, he was a drummer in the regular United States army in New York and Canada, and participated in the battles on the border, and was concerned in the subsequent conflicts with the Indians. He seemed tough as a lightwood knot, and almost insensible to pain. We have seen him in the camps drive a pin to the head into his leg to show the boys what he could do. He prided himself greatly upon his skill as a drummer, and was in his glory when the Guards were on Tybee Island in 1861. A man named COLES, the best drummer we ever heard, who was in the Confederate army over three years and never missed a roll call, came down with the Burke Sharp Shooters. HARRIS heard him rattling away one morning in his splendid style, became disgusted with his own fifty years’ practice, applied for a furlough and has never touched a drum stick since.” [(Macon) Georgia Weekly Telegraph newspaper, Tuesday, 10 OCT 1871, p. 2.] File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/muscogee/military/indian/other/harris420gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb