Person:Richard Drum (1)

Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, 1850 census:^[5]

Drum, Richard 24 yrs 3rd Lieut., U.S.A. b. Pennsylvania

Fort Monroe, Elizabeth City County, Virginia, 1860 census:^[6]

Drum, Richard C. 35 yrs Lt. in 4th Arty., U.S.A. (real estate = $10,000; personal estate = $1,200) b. Pennsylvania

      Lavinia 27 yrs b. Louisiana

      Susan E. 10 yrs b. Illinois

Lynch, Ann [BLACK] 26 yrs b. Maryland

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1870 census:^[7]

Drum, Richard C. 45 yrs [no occupations or places of birth given for anyone on this page]

      Lavinia 38 yrs

      Susan E. 19 yrs

      Henrietta M. 8 yrs

Chatellier, Josephine 16 yrs

Farley, Mary Jane 15 yrs

McCully, Margaret 23 yrs

Washington, District of Columbia, 1880 census:^[8]

Drum, Richard

      Lavinia

[rest of bottom of page is torn away and missing; next line below Lavinia appears to be blank, so apparently no children living at home]

Montgomery County, Maryland, 1900 census:^[9]

Drumm, Richard Head 75 yrs (b. May 1825) (marr. 50 yrs) b. Pennsylvania (parents, b. Pennsylvania) Army Officer

      Lavinia M. Wife 68 yrs (b. Jan 1832) (3 children, 2 living) b. Louisiana (parents, b. Louisiana/Pennsylvania)

Tarr, Susan D. Dau 50 yrs (b. Mar 1850) (wid.; 0 children) b. Illinois (parents, b. Louisiana/Pennsylvania)

Hunt, Richard C. Gr/son 16 yrs (b. Apr 1884) b. DC (parents, b. "United States"/California) At School

      Henry J. D. Gr/son 13 yrs (b. Dec 1886) b. DC (parents, b. "United States"/California) At School

Oliphant, Margaret C. Gr/Dau 7 yrs (b. Jan 1882 [sic]) b. Maryland (parents, b. Pennsylvania/Louisiana

      Marion C. Gr/son 5 yrs (b. Apr 1895) b. Maryland (parents, b. Pennsylvania/Louisiana

[+ 7 servants & 2 unrelated boarders]

1.   Biography, in Steiner, Bernard Christian (Ph.D.); David Henry Carroll; Lynn Roby Meekins; and Thomas G Boggs. Men of mark in Maryland: biographies of leading men in the state ; illustrated with many full page engravings (in 4 Volumes). (Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD: Johnson-Wynne and BF Johnson, 1907-1912)
   Vol. 1, p. 98-101.

   [[1]

2.   Death Notice, in The New York Times. (New York, New York)
   16 Oct 1909.

   link

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} Find A Grave.

   Richard Coulter Drum

4. ↑ Dawson, Sarah Morgan, and Charles East. The Civil War Diary of Sarah Morgan. (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1991)
   pp. 105, 236, 324.
5. ↑ ^5.0 5.1 East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   p. 187A, dwelling/family 517/517 ("Barracks").
6. ↑ ^6.0 6.1 Elizabeth City County, Virginia, United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   p. 594, dwelling/family 282/286.
7. ↑ ^7.0 7.1 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. 1870 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   p. 101A, dwelling/family ---/--- (218 - 15th St).
8. ↑ ^8.0 8.1 District of Columbia, United States. 1880 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   ED 37, p. 299D, dwelling/family 346/568 ('I' St, NW).
9. ↑ ^9.0 9.1 Montgomery, Maryland, United States. 1900 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   ED 58, p. 9A, dwelling/family 127/129.
10.   California, United States. Great Registers, 1866-1898.
11.   Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1600-1889 (1889 ed).

    Richard Coulter Drum, soldier, born in Pennsylvania, 28 May 1825. He studied at Jefferson College, entered the army as a private in the 1st Pennsylvania volunteers on 8 December 1846, was engaged at the siege of Vera Cruz, and appointed a Second Lieutenant of U. S. infantry on 18 February 1847. He was brevetted First Lieutenant for bravery at Chapultepec and the capture of the City of Mexico.
    
    After the war with Mexico he was transferred to the artillery, was engaged in the action at Blue Water, Nebraska, served as aide-de-camp to General Harney in the Sioux expedition, and was in Kansas during the troubles of 1856. From 1856 till 1858 he served as acting assistant adjutant general at the headquarters of the Department of the West, and subsequently as adjutant in the artillery school.
    
    At the beginning of the Civil War he was appointed Assistant Adjutant General of the U. S. army, and promoted to Captain on 14 May 1861, Major on 3 August 1861, and Lieutenant Colonel on 17 July 1862. On 24 September 1864, he was brevetted Colonel, and on 13 March 1865, Brigadier General for services during the war.
    
    He continued in the Adjutant General's Department, was stationed in 1866-1868 at Philadelphia, in 1868-69 at Atlanta, the headquarters of the Department of the South, receiving promotion as Colonel on 22 February 1869, and on 15 June 1880, he succeeded General Townsend, on the latter's retirement, as Adjutant General of the Army, with the rank of Brigadier General.
    
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    His elder brother, Simon Henry Drum, soldier, born in Greensburg,Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in June 1807; killed in action at the storming of the City of Mexico, 13 September 1847, was graduated at the U. S. Military Academy in 1830. He was assistant instructor of infantry tactics there in 1830-32, was engaged in the Florida war and the Canada border disturbances, and as Captain of Artillery in the occupation of Texas in 1846 served through the Mexican war, distinguished himself at Contreras, where he recaptured two fieldpieces taken from his regiment at Buena Vista, and fell at the assault on the City of Mexico after he had entered the Belen gate while directing the fire of a gun he had captured.
    
    NOTE: Another relative, William Findlay Drum, Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army, is buried adjacent to him in Arlington National Cemetery.