Robert Steele (drum major)
Drum Major Robert Steele (c. 1760 – June 22, 1833) was an America Revolutionary War drummer and drum major.[1]
Steele was born in about 1760 in Massachusetts. A month after the Battles of Lexington and Concord, at the age of fifteen, he joined the Continental Army as a drummer boy. He took part in the Battle of Bunker Hill.[2]
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.[3]
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.