CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Perhaps the most recognized 24 notes ever played on a bugle, “Taps” is known as the National Song of Remembrance, and is a call unique to the United States military.

Daniel Butterfield could not read or write music, but he knew what he liked. A brigadier general in the Union Army who would go on to receive the Medal of Honor in 1892 for gallantry during the Civil ...

HURLOCK — Heard across the country and world at American military funerals and ceremonial activities, “Taps” is a piece of music that evokes real, raw emotion when remembering lives lost and time gone ...