Charlie Coulson the Drummer Boy
Civil War Drummer Boy Two or three times in my life God in His mercy touched my heart, and twice before my conversion I was under deep conviction. During the American war I was surgeon in the United States army, and after the battle of Gettysburg there were many hundreds of wounded soldiers in the hospital, twenty-eight of whom had been wounded so severely that they required my services at once; some whose legs had to be amputated, some their arms, and others both their arm and leg. One of the latter was a boy who had been but three months…