Tin Bugle in the Illinois State Military Museum1301 North MacArthur BlvdSpringfield, Illinois 62702 Thanks for their kind permission to share photographs During the Civil War…
Posts published in “History of Taps”
I occasionally receive questions about burial flags and how someone gets one for a veteran at the time of their death. Basically the funeral home…
A question has come up as to what the original key was for Taps. Whether or not it was played on a G Bugle, or…
Just because it’s in a Hollywood film does not make it correct.Any Marine will tell you this is wrong Do not use Taps to lower…
by Colonel Murray Green, USAF, Retired On July 15, 1939, the U.S. Army Air Corps acquired performance rights to a stirring song that, just two…
Louis Benz (Bentz) was a US Army Musician and Chief Bugler of the US Military Academy for 40 years, 1834-1874. He died in his early…
