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nine-note call he used when he wanted his buglers to attract the attention of
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"I'm reminded of one of the things that Confederate General Robert E.
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"Taps " has long been entwined with military deaths. The man's commanding officer decided that the
traditional rifle volley over the grave might spark more fighting. One of the most famous occasions
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Another unfounded story says that it was Daniel Butterfield's cousin
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National Civil War Museum Explores History of 'Taps'

"There are some heart-warming myths about 'Taps,'" warns George Hicks, the
executive director of the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania."
At the start of the war the army signaled lights out with the "Tattoo," a
bugle call that may have received its name from the Dutch expression "tap
toe," which meant it was time to shut off the taps in the drinking
establishments so soldiers would return to camp.
The call is only 24 notes long, yet it tugs at the emotions.

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The Museum includes "Taps" on its list of Civil War "firsts" because
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"Taps" was also played at Daniel Butterfield's funeral.

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The man responsible for "Taps" as we know it today was the Union's
Brigadier General Daniel Butterfield. "After getting it to his
satisfaction , he directed me to sound that call for Taps thereafter, in place
of the regulation call," Norton recalled in a letter to Century magazine in
1898.'"
On one occasion described at the Museum , Union and Confederate soldiers on
the eve of the Battle of Murfreesboro at the end of 1862 engaged in a duel of
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The Museum's exhibit about Civil War music includes six battered and
tarnished bugles that served during the conflict. Thirty years after the war he received the Medal of Honor for
his bravery at the former battle; at the latter he received the wounds that
would lead to "Taps . "Its strains are melancholy, yet full of rest and peace.

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-- Feature length Commentary Track with Ronald F.S. Standing on Little Round Top, Norton
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During that campaign Butterfield distinguished himself at Gaines' Mill and
Malvern Hill. His men soon added their own words:

"Dan, Dan, Dan, Butterfield, Butterfield.
Then Butterfield summoned Private Oliver Willcox Norton to his tent."
The next morning buglers from other units stopped by , asking for copies of the
music.
That tradition continues to this day.

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Fourth in The Civil War Minutes series, "Horses of Gettysburg"
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content as brigade bugler while there was a possibility of doing better," he
wrote to his sister. In 1880
he returned to Gettysburg for a reunion.
"It's a nice story, it's a lovely story, but there's no historical fact,"
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something singularly beautiful and appropriate in the music of this wonderful
call," wrote Norton.

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HARRISBURG, Pa. A regiment of cavalry might have
as many as 25 buglers. Wilson attacked a
Confederate force at the Battle of Front Royal, Virginia, in September 1864,
some 250 buglers guided the Union forces through a dense fog.
One night as he was recuperating from his wounds in his tent at the army's
base at Harrison's Landing, Virginia, Butterfield scratched out some notes on
an envelope.
"Taps" also made its way across Confederate lines, as music often did."
After Gettysburg Norton sought and received a commission in the Eighth
U.S."
After the war Norton became a successful businessman in Chicago.
In the years since, several myths about the creation of "Taps" have
appeared. The most prevalent tells the story of a Union soldier at Harrison 's
Landing who heard the moans of a wounded soldier in the night.

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As an officer, Butterfield had a rudimentary knowledge of how to play the
bugle and sound calls to direct his troops.
Butterfield thought the "Tattoo" was too harsh to help soldiers relax.
Norton, a Pennsylvania schoolteacher before the war, was the bugler for
Butterfield's brigade.

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The call is "Taps" and it dates back to the American Civil War. When cavalry under General James H. Lee
said," says Hicks: "We could have never had a war without music. As Richard H.
Norton died in 1920 at his home in Chicago.

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"It's truly unique and it sticks in your mind," says Hicks about hearing
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About MyFamily. Born in Utica, New York, in 1831,
Butterfield commanded a brigade in General George McClellan's Army of the
Potomac during the Peninsula Campaign of 1862, when the Union attempted to
capture Richmond . Shortly after
Butterfield introduced it at Harrison's Landing, Confederate artillery fire
killed a Union soldier there.
Kennedy was laid to rest following his assassination. He was 81.

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Or , as their general recalled, they had alternate words when they weren't
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"Damn, damn, damn, Butterfield, Butterfield. "That familiar sound echoing among the rocks
where they had fought brought back, perhaps more vividly than words could do,
the memories of the days when they had answered so often to its sound," he
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"The soldiers would frequently engage in band concerts or singing fests around
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HorsesofGettysburg. Maxwell on his history in
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