Drummer Boy Of Shiloh Essay

The two story's "Drumbeats and Bullets" and " The Drummer Boy of Shiloh" are very different and very similar in lots of ways. The Battle of Shiloh was a battle that took place during the Civil War. These two story's "Drumbeats and Bullets" and "The Drummer Boy of
Shiloh" really are totally opposites of how they are written but still very similar. Some of the differences in the two stories "Drumbeats and Bullets" and "The Drummer of
Shiloh". One of them is that the story "The Drummer of Shiloh" is in first person point of view well the other story is just going over the outline of drummer boys and how they started to disappeared during middle of the Cilvil War. Also in "Drumbeats and Bullets" it talks about more then one battle while the …show more content…
Also in "Drumbeats and Bullets" it talks about multiple famous drummer boys while in the other story it is just talks about one certain drummer The story " Drumbeats and Bullets" is very similar to "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh" in a lot of ways, because both of them are related to the Battle of Shiloh in ways. Also they both talked about Drummer Boys that is the main idea of both stories . Also in both of the stories the drummer boys are put at risk of being sick and dying on the battlefield in "Drumbeats and
Bullets"
one of the drummers says " A ball hit my drum and it bounced off and I fell over. When I got up another ball tore a hole in my drum another came so close to my ear that I heard it sing." (Jim Murphy pg. 198) Another reason how these two stories are similar because the main idea of both stories are drummer boys. Some of the other differences in the two stories about drummer boys are, in the story
"The Drummer Of Shiloh" the drummer dies in the end of the battle which is the end of the story.
Another difference is that in "Drumbeats and Bullets" it talks about how the drummer boys eventually disappeared because the weapons became louder and soldiers could not hear