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[Trivia Master]

Who was the drum major of the regimental band for the 6th Wisconsin highly renowned for his aplomb and towering height who, after receiving a tip of the cap from General McClellan, dropped his baton into the mud?

credit: @hughes

 

[DBF]

That would be the 6 feet, 5 inches tall William Whaley
https://quotes.pub/q/the-whole-brigade-took-a-queer-perverse-pride-in-the-regimen-190147

 

[JeffFromSyracuse]

William Whaley

 

[ErnieMac]

Drum Major William Whaley.

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[bayouace]

William Whaley.
The band was so bad it could alledgedly play only one tune no one could identify, but Whaley could twirl his baton impressively.

 

[streetwiseprof]

William Whaley.

 

[WJC]

Who was the drum major of the regimental band for the 6th Wisconsin highly renowned for his aplomb and towering height who, after receiving a tip of the cap from General McClellan, dropped his baton into the mud?

credit: @hughes

William Whaley.
Source: Charles O. Paullin, "Wisconsin Troops at the Defense of Washington in 1861", The Wisconsin Magazine of History. (Menasha, WI: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1924), Vol. VIII, No. 2, Dec. 1924, pp. 184-185.

 

[JOHN42768]

William Whaley,
who stood 6 feet, 5 inches tall.
source: http://www.chicagocwrt.org/newsletters/CWRT201611.pdf

 

[sarladaise]

William Whaley

 

[gentlemanrob]

Answer: William Whaley

 

[kholland]

William Whaley

Unfortunately the band was not as noteworthy as him. Lance Herdegen wrote in his book "The Iron Brigade In Civil War and Memory....."

 

[Ole Miss]

William Whaley
Regards
David

 

[Pollaco]

William Whaley 8th

 

[Pollaco]

Oops, Just plain William Whaley, no 8th to it!

 

[hoosier]

William Whaley

 

[ami]

William Whaley
SOURCE: Mr. Lincoln's Army, Bruce Catton