RICHMOND, Va. — The 24 notes of Taps, so familiar to the ear, are melodic yet solemn in their simplicity. Stewart Boone, a 98-year-old bugler, does not need sheet music anymore. The veteran of the ...
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 ...