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TAPS - first played by a US CIVIL WAR Bugler in 1862
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Civil War Trivia
"TAPS" was first played in July of 1862 by Union Army Brigadier General Daniel Butterfield, an American Civil War general and commander of the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Division of the Army of the Potomac. "Taps" was used by both Union and Confederate forces, and was officially recognized by the United States Army in 1874.
It was used at military funerals beginning in July of 1862 at Harrison's Landing when a corporal, of Captain John Francis Tidball's Battery A, 2nd US Artillery, died. He was, Tidball recalled later, "a most excellent man".
"Taps" concludes many military funerals at Arlington National Cemetery and elsewhere in the United States, and is still sounded each year during each of the military wreath ceremonies conducted at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
SEE PHOTO (Daniel Butterfield & Listen to TAPS): https://www.facebook.com/CivilWarHist...
Freedom Calling: A Civil War Slave Escapes By Sea
Civil War Trivia
"TAPS" was first played in July of 1862 by Union Army Brigadier General Daniel Butterfield, an American Civil War general and commander of the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Division of the Army of the Potomac. "Taps" was used by both Union and Confederate forces, and was officially recognized by the United States Army in 1874.
It was used at military funerals beginning in July of 1862 at Harrison's Landing when a corporal, of Captain John Francis Tidball's Battery A, 2nd US Artillery, died. He was, Tidball recalled later, "a most excellent man".
"Taps" concludes many military funerals at Arlington National Cemetery and elsewhere in the United States, and is still sounded each year during each of the military wreath ceremonies conducted at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
SEE PHOTO (Daniel Butterfield & Listen to TAPS): https://www.facebook.com/CivilWarHist...
Freedom Calling: A Civil War Slave Escapes By Sea
Freedom Calling A Civil War Slave Escapes By Sea
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