VETERANS PRESS: Taps history
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The military bugle call used in 1835 was changed from Scotts Tattoo, (Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott — General-in-chief of the United States Army to Butterfields Lullaby (Brig. Gen. Daniel A. Butterfield, 3rd Brigade Union Army Corps.) with the Bugler Oliver W. Norton playing the notes until the General was satisfied.
The 24 note call has been played as Butterfields Lullaby for the past 157 years since July of 1862 at nearly every military funeral.
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