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Robert Henry Hendershot. By JP Culbertson Robert Henry Hendershot Born:1849 Death:1912. Facts of Robert Henry. He went practiced with a Union army commanded by Captain Deland and he had practiced the “left right left”. He was twelve years old when he joined the Union army.
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Robert Henry Hendershot By JP Culbertson Robert Henry Hendershot Born:1849 Death:1912
Facts of Robert Henry • He went practiced with a Union army commanded by Captain Deland and he had practiced the “left right left”. • He was twelve years old when he joined the Union army. • He had seen a lot of blood from solider’ s building a barge. • He was in the battle of Fredericksburg. He had gotten shot and had figured out his drum was shot instead of him. He had found a dead solider and picked up his rifle. Then hid under a broken tree. • Then he went inside a broken house and captured his first solider on the Confederates side.
Facts continued…… • After the battle of Fredericksburg he went to meet Abe Lincoln ,the President at the time. • He was invited to dinner with the Lincoln family he wore brand new pants, his army coat, and his busted boots.
Facts for the whole story • He was from Michigan. • He was in the Michigan Eighth and Ninth infantry. • He was assigned as the drummer boy of Rappahannock. • He was under the command of Captain Deland.
Death • He was killed by pneumonia. • Before that he had created Fort Jackson. • He had also was in the Pension Bureau. • He had been suffering because Parkinson’s disease.
