DRUM-MAJOR

since 1878 called the sergeant-drummer, the first or chief drummer in a regimental band, the officer who leads a drum-corps or band, directing its movements, and regulating the pace when on the march. He attends to the bugle calls and teaches the under drummers. The D. ranks with the sergeants of the line, Eng. politician; a ociated with Edward reer founding Catholic Apostolic ure.