The Beat of a Drum

I remember it like it was yesterday getting dressed in my uniform getting ready to go to battle in Antietam I get my drum said good bye to my parents and lave to go to battle. The commander of the union George B McClellan got the team together and we started to march out the battle field. I was in the front beating the marching beat. When we got to the battle field commander McClellan gave his six shoot colt army revolver and the ammo to me and told me to only use if they got too close to me. At about 5:30 AM the Confederacy come in to sight and started shooting. We were on a hill so they were not able to shoot us but they were starting to go up another hill. They started to fire 14 P.DR James canons at us. The man next to me was shot and all I could do was just watch him die. Then the commander told us to move to the woods so we started to march toward the woods. We get to the woods and the commander told we us were going to charge the confederates. He told all the drummers to stay back with two officers .

When they left for the charge about 5min later we heard some men in the woods then all of a sudden I am hit on the head. I woke up in a jail with the other drummers they told me that the two officers where shot. I remembered that I had the six shot colt army revolver that the commander gave me so me and the other drummers got a plan to escape. The next time the guard came by I would shoot him and make it look like he killed himself. We would get the keys and break out. That night when the guard came by I shot him, put his gun in his hand so it looked like he shot himself and then we heard men coming down the stairs. They asked me what happened to him. I told them that he killed himself. They took his body. When they left we opened the door with the key and ran to the back exit. We ran as fast as we could to the woods where the team was waiting for us. But we forgot about the guard in the front so I shot him and we just kept running.

About two days later we got to the woods where the team was waiting for us. The commander told us the confederacy had won. We started to march back home. I ran home to my parents. They were surprised to see me alive because they had been notified that I had been taken prisoner but not that I had escaped. I will never forget that day. I was not allowed to battle again and I really didn’t what to.

friday mini lock down

I didnt think that the mini lock in would be realy fun at frist. I thought u would not be able to eat in the gym and library but you were. I would hate haveing to be the one to clean the gym that night.