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2 sie 2021 · The lyrics to “Taps” were added after the original composition by Butterfield. While little is known on how they were written, they are often attributed to Horace Lorenzo Trim, although his...
27 maj 2021 · The powerful sound of a bugler playing “Taps” is a call to remember those who gave their lives in the service of the United States. Born of a French bugle call, the melody we know as “Taps” was rearranged and used during the Civil War as a call for lights out.
30 maj 2011 · The languid, melancholy sound of a bugle call is a fixture at military funerals. But it wasn't always that way. The song taps used to signal 'lights out' for soldiers to go to sleep.
There are several legends concerning the origin of "Taps". The most widely circulated one states that a Union Army infantry officer, whose name often is given as Captain Robert Ellicombe, first ordered "Taps" performed at the funeral of his son, a Confederate soldier killed during the Peninsula Campaign .
15 kwi 2016 · The origins of “Taps,” the distinctive bugle melody played at U.S. military funerals and memorials and as a lights-out signal to soldiers at night, date back to the American Civil War.
Originally the “Scott Tattoo” as far back as 1835, “Taps” features on every American battlefield from the Civil War onward.
The call, sounded that night in July, 1862, soon spread to other units of the Union Army and was even used by the Confederates. Taps was made an official bugle call after the war. The highly romantic account of how Butterfield composed the call surfaced in 1898 following a magazine article written that summer.
