The Drummer Boy of Shiloh by Ray Bradbury — Review

The main theme of the story “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh” by Ray Bradbury is a feeling of the upcoming bloody battle during the Civil War of the North and South in the USA.

The general and the little drummer are talking on a spring evening in a military camp. In a day or two the Battle of Shiloh will take place, and everyone is afraid in their own way. The story was wtitten by Bradbury after he read in the newspaper about an person whose great-grandfather was known as the drummer boy of Shiloh. The story represents a ganre of a psychological sketch on the theme “before the battle”.

Here is the link to the text of the story:
http://mrhay.weebly.com/uploads/8/2/5/3/8253688/drummerboy_story.pdf