Robert Steele (Drum Major)
- Robert Steele (Drum Major)
Drum Major Robert Steele (1760 - June 22, 1833) was an America Revolutionary War drummer and Drum Major. [Westwood One Hundred, Suburban World Newspapers, 1997, page 29.]
Steele was born in 1760 in Massachusetts. A month after the battles of Lexington Green and Concord Bridge, at the age of fifteen, he joined the Continental Army as a drummer boy. He took part in the Battle of Bunker Hill. [Westwood One Hundred, Suburban World Newspapers, 1997, page 29.]
He served throughout the war and was promoted to Drum Major by the time the Revolution was won. He retired to West Dedham, Massachusetts in 1783. [Westwood One Hundred, Suburban World Newspapers, 1997, page 29.]
Before Steele died on June 22, 1833, he married a woman named Lydia and both are buried in the Old Westwood Cemetery in Westwood, Massachusetts.
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