Drum Major Robert Steele (c. 1760 – June 22, 1833) was an America Revolutionary War drummer and drum major.
A month after the Battles of Lexington and Concord, at the age of fifteen, he joined the Continental Army as a drummer boy.
[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.