WAR MUSIC TO BE HEARD
Los Angeles Times, July 27, 1911. Veteran Fife and Drum Corps Will Raise Funds to Help Land Big Encampment Next Year. For the purpose of increasing their campaign fund to bring the annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic to this city next year, the Veteran Fife and Drum Corps will hold forth […]
FIFE THAT HAS A HISTORY
Los Angeles Times, May 8, 1911. Instrument Manufactured in Sixteenth Century Has been Owned by Generations of Same Family. SANTA MONICA, May 7 — Hugging an ancient fife to his breast with an affection apparently as deep and sincere as that which a mother showers upon her first-born, William H McDaniel, a Civil War veteran, […]
Attending the Fresno Encampment
Members of the original Los Angeles Fifes and Drums attending the forty-fourth annual encampment of California and Nevada, Grand Army of the Republic, in Fresno, April 11-14, 1911. Included in this photo is the Civil War veteran B.F. Hilliker, the drummer on the right side, who received the Medal of Honor for his bravery at […]
GREETED BY COMMITTEE
Members of the original Los Angeles Fifes and Drums attending the forty-third annual encampment of California and Nevada, Grand Army of the Republic, in Oakland, April 19-23, 1910. First row: Bass Drummer A.M. Thornburg, chief bugler, Company E, Ninth Indiana cavalry; Drummer Robert Bain, Company B, Fifth Iowa infantry; Drummer Philo L. Case, Company D, […]
Decoration Day at the Old Soldier’s Home
Decoration Day, 1905 at the Santa Monica Soldier’s Home. This is now the site of the VA Hospital in West Los Angeles. [source: USC Digital Llibrary, http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/…/item/chs-m4566/CHS-9995…, part of California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960]
BARD INCREASES FUND
Los Angeles Herald, August 5, 1904, page 12. Aids in Expense Money to Send G. A. R. Men East. The G. A. R. Fife and Drum corps of California, consisting entirely of veterans of the Civil War, is preparing to start next Monday to the national convention, which convenes in Boston, providing the necessary funds […]
SEND DRUM CORPS EAST
Los Angeles Herald, Wednesday Morning, July 27, 1904, page 5. Money Is Being Raised by Friends of Veteran Organization. Los Angeles has a Grand Army of the Republic Fife and Drum corps, comprising eighteen members, all of whom served as musicians in the union army during the civil war. The members of the corps are […]
PATRIOTIC ENTERTAINMENT
Los Angeles Herald, Saturday Morning, July 16, 1904, page 4 Pleasant Affair Given by the Veterans’ Drum Corps A patriotic entertainment was given in the Masonic hall, corner of Pico and El Molino streets, last evening under the auspices of the Los Angeles Veteran Drum corps. An elaborate musical program was carried out. Following is […]
VETERAN DRUMMERS WANT TO ATTEND ENCAMPMENT IN BOSTON NEXT SUMMER
Los Angeles Herald, Wednesday Morning, December 16, 1903, page 5. Will Give Series of Entertainments to Raise Funds. Drummer Boh of Shiloh, Who Passed Through Many Battles, Is Member of Corps. With a view to establishing a fund to pay its expenses to the next national encampment of the G. A. R., which will be […]
WAR STORIES AS TOLD BY VETERANS
Los Angeles Herald, Sunday Morning, September 9, 1900, page 12. “Here ie a relic,” said Comrade Bain of Logan post, exhibiting a time-worn drum of ancient make, “that is of more than ordinary interest. lt was captured by my great grandfather in 1777, and has been in our family ever since. I carried it through […]