One Hundred Fifty Years Since Shiloh
by GalionLive • May 20, 2012 • Life in Galion • 1 Comment

From the 1870s to the early 1900s, an event occurred each year in Galion that truly brought the community together. Townsmen and women joined together with children, each taking a part in the production; politician and student stood side-by-side with ministers and mothers. And, as the final act brought the sorrowful death scene for young Johnny, there wasn’t a dry eye in house.
The opera house, that is – the one that sat on the top floors of the old Galion City Building, which was located where the current Municipal Building now stands.
The event was Galion’s annual civic performance of “The Drummer Boy, or the Battlefield of Shiloh,” also known as “The Drummer Boy, or the Last Charge at Shiloh,” a play written in either 1868 or 1870 (depending … Read the rest
Read more →


