Recruits between the ages of 12 and 16 can sign up now.
Learn about soldier life in the Civil War period.
Wear authentic Civil War style
uniforms.
Develop musical skills with the fife, drum or bugle.
(No experience needed!)
Participate in fun events, parades, historical celebrations,
etc.
Help restore a historic building (Building 55, the
oldest surviving building on Fort Douglas.)
Contact:
Master Musician Patrick Mahoney (801) 250-9419
email: patrickomahoney@msn.com
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Memorial Day
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To remember and honor those people who gave their lives during the American Revolution where our Country was born, and during the Civil war where our nation was saved. Many paid the ultimate price of death, while others suffered emotionally and physically throughout their lives from the effects of those wars. We support the principles for which they fought. To show our appreciation for what we have as a country, to not take for granted what we have been given -"by the people and for the people"- for the Constitution, our freedom and rights. To preserve this history we, study the military tactics, the word from the actual publications, books, papers, and journals from that time. We try, from this knowledge to recreate in dress, drill, and music. Feeling the experiences of doing on the battlefields, parades ceremony and all public events. With our poor efforts we hope to better understand their sacrifices to take their Torch and every good patriotic thing they lived, fought and died for, and pass it on, so that their generous deeds will not be forgotten, Keeping in mind Lincoln's address. "It is for us the Living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to
be dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these
honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they
gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve
that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under
God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the
people, by the people for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
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For more information about Fife & Drum groups, music, and resources check
out
The Company
of Fifers & Drummers
Nice Story on Bldg 55 being restored by
3rd California Volunteers
The Deseret News had
a very nice story on the Open House Recpetion for President Lincoln on February
28, 2004.
The 3rd California Volunteers have been restoring the 140-year-old adobe house
originally occupied by Col. Patrick Connor, who brought the 3rd California
Infantry to Salt Lake City and built the fort. Connor, known as the father
of Utah's mining industry, is buried in the Fort Douglas Military Cemetery.
Click
here to read story