Taps
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Title |
Name |
Address |
City |
State |
Zip |
Phone |
E-mail |
| AUMONIER |
Glen Huber |
822 N. Leitzman Rd |
Paragon |
IN |
46166 |
765-346-0506 |
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800-397-7779 |
SGDRAGON@RELIABLE-NET.NET |
| SOUS
AUMONIER |
Name |
Address |
City |
State |
Zip |
Phone |
E-mail |
| North |
Jake Webber |
1416 213th St |
Dyer |
IN |
46311 |
219-322-7314 |
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| South |
Coleman Sumrall |
PO Box 1585 |
New Albany |
IN |
47150 |
812-590-1932 |
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Our
Departed Comrade Voyageurs
IN MEMORY OF OUR
DEPARTED VOYAGEURS "Soft and safe be the earthly bed of this, our
departed Voyageur, and glorious be his rising there from. Fragrant be
the pretty flowers that shall flourish ever his grave, and may the first
buds of springtime in perennial loveliness over his resting place,
unfold"
Taps
Of all the military bugle calls, none is so easily
recognized or more apt to render emotion than Taps. Up to the Civil War,
the traditional call at day's end was a tune, borrowed from the French,
called Lights Out. In July of 1862, in the aftermath of the bloody Seven
Days battles, hard on the loss of 600 men and wounded himself, Union
General Daniel Adams Butterfield called the brigade bugler to his tent.
He thought "Lights Out" was too formal and he wished to honor his men.
Oliver Wilcox Norton, the bugler, tells the story, "...showing me some
notes on a staff written in pencil on the back of an envelope, (he)
asked me to sound them on my bugle. I did this several times, playing
the music as written. He changed it somewhat, lengthening some notes and
shortening others, but retaining the melody as he first gave it to me.
After getting it to his satisfaction, he directed me to sound that call
for Taps thereafter in place of the regulation call. The music was
beautiful on that still summer night and was heard far beyond the limits
of our Brigade. The next day I was visited by several buglers from
neighboring Brigades, asking for copies of the music which I gladly
furnished. The call was gradually taken up through the Army of the
Potomac."
This more emotive and
powerful Taps was soon adopted throughout the military. In 1874 It was
officially recognized by the U.S. Army. It became standard at military
funeral ceremonies in 1891. There is something singularly beautiful and
appropriate in the music of this wonderful call. Its strains are
melancholy, yet full of rest and peace. Its echoes linger in the heart
long after its tones have ceased to vibrate in the air.