If you believe the Ellicombe story and that the Butterfield/Norton Story
is not true, here is a challenge.
If you can prove the Captain Robert Ellicombe/Confederate Son Story I will give you a Gold Plated, Vincent Bach Stradivarius Field Trumpet (bugle) valued at $2000.00. This is rare instrument-one of the kind made for the US Army Band used at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington-like the one pictured below.
HERE IS WHAT YOU WILL NEED
Proof of the existence of Captain Robert Ellicombe.
1. You’ll need his unit and pension records. Remember he has to be in the US Army at camp at Harrison’s Landing during the summer of 1862.
2. The name of the son and where he is buried.
CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT YOUR PROOF
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My son is in marching and concert band as well as Orchestra. He plays most brass instruments to include bugle. he wants to know the significance of the cord or braid found on many of the bugles. He is also in Boy Scouts and AFROTC and wants an appropriate cord to put on his bugle. Thank you
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https://archive.org/details/CivilWarBugleCalls
Jari–hopefully we did Taps justice in Aftermath of Battle. I certainly tried!! I have had a difficult time finding a recording of Extinguish Lights. Is there other than the young lady who plays bugle on the YouTube offering, if that is even it? Thanks, Meg
For a historically accurate and fitting arrangement for performance see, “Extinguish Lights” (or Taps) on page 38 of The Bugler’s Call Book under the heading: Cavalry Calls, contained in the back of Elias Howe’s United States Regulation Drum and Fife Instructor published in 1861.
Most assuredly “Taps” was not a Confederate music composition.
No one said it did….