Taps was played at the funeral of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson 10 months after it was composed. Army infantry regulations by 1891 required taps to be played at military funeral ceremonies.

Every morning before work, and before sunrise, David Dodson sits in his car, garage door closed, and practices playing his trumpet for 30 minutes.

The taps sounded so real that Daniel McKenna of Philadelphia, who attended the funeral, said he did not realize it was a recorded version played on an electronic bugle because the real bugler ...

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. Taps ...

At 3 p.m. on Memorial Day, three Crosby trumpet players walked outside and played a somber refrain in memory of those who paid the ultimate price for this country. The 24-note tune is the mournful ...

Brig. Gen. Daniel Butterfield not only earned a Medal of Honor while serving in the Union Army during the Civil War, but he also is responsible for the bugle call we know as taps.

There are just 24 melancholy notes in taps. Over the decades, Hellertown’s LeRohn Deysher has poured his heart into them again and again. Counting military funerals, Memorial Day services and… ...