Grand Trunk Railway System Advt Card c1890s-Major Hendershot Civil War Drummer

Description

Ticket card with advertising for Grand Trunk Railway System - The Great Scenic Route, possibly for baggage claim?  The top of the card reads "Major R.H. Hendershot, the original Drummer Boy of the Rappahannock and Son." with a photograph of two men, drums and the American flag.  The back side of the card has Grand Trunk Single-Arch Double-Track Steel Bridge over Niagra Falls.  The bottom edge of the card (vertically) is perforated.  Bottom of the card reads: Lock Box 966 - Chicago, ILL.  Back of card has print at one end which reads:Gage Printing Co., Ltd, Battle Creek, Mich.  Card measures approx 2 5/8" x 4 5/8".
Condition: Bends at three corners, soiling.
Publisher: see above
"Oldpostoffice Postcard Co" is only on the digital image and not on the actual card you will receive if you are the high bidder or choose to buy the card.
Railroad, Patriotic, bio info on Hendershot below.  Check out his full bio online as he has a very interesting and story.
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Hendershot was born somewhere between 1847 and 1851 in either New York or Michigan. In 1861 he was living with his widowed mother in Jackson, Michigan. That fall he began drilling with the Jackson County Rifles, a local volunteer unit. He accompanied them to Fort Wayne, outside Detroit, where the unit became Company C of the Ninth Michigan Infantry. Hendershot did not enlist at this time, but accompanied the regiment to its first encampment at West Point, Kentucky, either as a stowaway or as a servant to Captain Charles V. DeLand, the company commander and erstwhile publisher of the Jackson American Citizen. Hendershot remained with Company C until March 1862, when he enlisted as a musician in Company B.   He was with Company B at the Murfreesboro, Tennessee courthouse when it was attacked by a Confederate cavalry brigade under command of Brigadier General Nathan Bedford Forrest on July 13, 1862, at the First Battle of Murfreesboro. Hendershot was captured with the rest of his regiment and paroled with the enlisted men. Shortly thereafter he was discharged for disability; he suffered frequent and severe epileptic seizures, an affliction he had endured since early childhood.  After the war Hendershot returned to Poughkeepsie Business College for a brief time, marrying a fellow student. In 1867 he collaborated with writer William Sumner Dodge, who produced a 200-page biography, Robert Henry Hendershot; or the Brave Drummer Boy of the Rappahannock.  After For the next two decades Hendershot worked for the Union Pacific Railroad in Omaha, Nebraska, and then as a federal mail clerk for the Michigan Lake Shore Railroad in Chicago, Illinois. After his retirement as mail clerk in 1885, Hendershot took out his drum and began touring the country with his son, Cleveland, who played the fife. Although they principally performed at Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) functions and other patriotic gatherings, their tour also took them to Canada and the Kingdom of Hawaii, where they entertained Queen Lill'uokalani.