Army Song Taps Analysis

Abstract
This paper will discourse about the Army Song Taps, It will compare and contrast the origin of the military song Taps. It will show the two stories that almost every member in the armed forces know or don’t know. How this song came to be the well-known song in the military to this day, it will also talk about what song was before the Army Song Taps and who create Taps. How is came to be the official bugle call of both the Union Army and the Confederates Army during the Civil war, and at what venues you can hear the song taps been play to this day.

THE ORIGIN OF TAPS
Every night before we go to sleep we hear a song that bring chills down to our spine. It is a song that every military persons knows too well. A song that bring tears
It started with General Butterfield and how he was not satisfied with the old song known as the Extinguish of Lights. Extinguish of Lights was a bugle called that was used before the Civil War to let Soldiers know to put out their lights and go to sleep. He believe that it was too official and wanted another song to let his Soldier’s know when to go to bed. General Butterfield asked for the help of a brigade bugler by the name of Oliver Norton. They work together to make this work of art known as Taps for numerous days as General Butterfield lead his Soldiers into combat. The song was played during that summer in 1862. The song was so beautiful and would be hear for miles away that other nearby Union Soldiers asked Oliver Norton for the notes for Taps to next morning. It was said that the new song taps could be hear as far as about two mile away and by both sides of the Civil War. It was such a great song that during the Civil War both the Union army and the Confederate army made taps their official bugle call. Showing that even it times of war music help to combine enemies as
Some story say he listen to the bugle played for hours to find the right notes until taps was created. Other say it was another version of the British Army song known to us as Last Post and that General Butterfield hear it when he visited Great Britain earlier that year. Some even believe that taps was wrote and played by just Oliver Norton and because he could not change the song known as Extinguish of Lights to taps without General Butterfield help Oliver Norton gave General Butterfield all the credit. But to this day we really can’t tell who actually wrote taps but what we do know is that it was created by both General Butterfield and Oliver Norton.

In conclusion Taps is a well-known military song that has been around since the Civil war in 1862. It replace Extinguish of Lights, it wasn’t supposed to be an official song but the melody was so satisfying that both the Union army and the Confederate army made it their official bugle call. The Rumor of how taps were compose to this day is better known than the origin of its actual fact.
Taps is played a funeral, wreath-laying and monument services, and on every post both here on America soil and abroad, it is very close to the British Army song known to us as Last Post. It was compose by General Butterfield