FORT BENNING, Ga., (Jan. 13 2016) -- Bugle calls have been an important tradition to the U.S. Army since its inception, dating back to pre-Revolutionary War times. Installations around the world ...

Union Army Brig. Gen. Daniel Butterfield, who is credited with revising the bugle call that we know as 'taps,' earned the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Gaines' Mill, Virginia ...

The Last Post, one of the most traditional military sounds, is going high-tech with a press-of-the-button electronic version of the bugle to play the stirring ceremonial call.

Some bugle calls are no longer relevant, and some installations play more than others. On Army installations, there is a set time for "Reveille'' and "Retreat,'' where on Navy bases, those vary ...

Within the military collections of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is a much-loved, well-traveled bugle that allegedly by order of General John J. Pershing sounded taps at ...

Military bugle call, 'Taps,' has ties to Utica. ... The bugle call's 24 notes were composed by a man from Utica — then 31-year-old Brigadier Gen. Daniel Adams Butterfield, ...

Horner, a Vietnam War veteran, was a bugle and trumpet player for the Army’s 4th Infantry Band. After active duty, he moved to Alaska in 1970 and later built a career as a piledriver.

"I thought it's probably not an antique military bugle, but it was interesting and so I went to look." On the bell of the bugle is engraved the date May 18, 1944, with two of the for names visible ...

Goshorn, 64, is a veteran of the Navy and Air National Guard who retired from military service in 2007. He joined the Navy right out of high school in Pennsylvania in 1976, just after the Vietnam ...

FORT BENNING, Ga., (Jan. 13 2016) -- Bugle calls have been an important tradition to the U.S. Army since its inception, dating back to pre-Revolutionary War times. Installations around the world ...