Adventures and Reminiscences of a Volunteer; Or, A Drummer Boy from Maine

"Adventures and Reminiscences of a Volunteer; Or, A Drummer Boy from Maine" is a war memoire by George T. Ulmer, a soldier during the American Civil War. Ulmer served as a volunteer in the company H of the 8th Maine Volunteers, an infantry regiment of the Union Army. He had attempted to enlist several times unsuccessfully but eventually succeeded in his ambition of joining the cause of the Union. The regiment faced many hurdles including sickness arising from the spring exposures of its campaigns in 1862.