2007 Julius Langbein Tomb With Statue of him as a boy drummer fifteen-year-old in Company B 0860

Drummer Boy cemetery statue with American flag and missing nose Wood-Lawn NYC Woodlawn New York City wood lawn Civil War Sculpture mausoleum stone drummer drum drums military marker markers mourner mourning grief grieving lily flower flowers bronze ivy Bronx tomb stone Child children resting tombstone marker statue mourning Wood-Lawn NYC Woodlawn New York City 2007 statue October 10/12/2007 Foreign Legion Hawkins Zouaves - the 9th New York Volunteers - These men volunteered in May 1861 for a term of two years and were attached to New York State infantry early in the summer - The commander and drummer-up-of-volunteers-in-chief was New Yorker Rush Hawkins and so the Zouaves unofficially bear his name - Hawkins may have drummed-up recruits but he scarcely stooped to literal drumming - For that office he had Julius Langbein a fifteen-year-old drummer boy in Company B - His records exist and we can actually see him in the muster of his company where he is listed as a musician - We can also see him in the flesh in a portrait statue on the porch of his mausoleum

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