Quartermaster Captain James S. Drum, 19th Indiana Regiment
Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, James Drum moved to Indianapolis as a boy, where he’d become a merchant and enroll in the National Guards, a Capitol City Militia unit. His first official military assignment was in the Commissary at Camp Morton, but he desired a more active assignment and was given a commission as a 1st Lieutenant in the 19th Indiana. Promoted to Captain in early 1863, Drum was transferred to the Commissary Department and assigned to a post in Nicholasville, Kentucky, where he would die of disease later that year.
SOURCES:
On Many a Bloody Field: Four Years in the Iron Brigade, by Alan D Gaff
Photo courtesy of the Indiana State Library
Eric Schlehlein, Author 