LULLABY of TAPS
Around five and eight at evenings rest,
Or anytime raised in solemness,
Taps melancholy notes proclaim:
Farewell to those in honor pay,
With the Lullaby that ends the day.

About my poem: After having fought in the “Seven Days Battle” and in camp at Harrison’s Landing, Virginia, Union General Daniel Butterfield, Brigade Commander, honoring his troopers of Third Brigade, First Division, Fifth Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, revised an earlier bugle call known as “Extinguish Lights” (lights out, rest, sleep). This new bugle call, sounded that night in July of 1862, soon spread to other units of the Union Army, and was reported to have been used by the Confederates. Some Union Troopers, back then in the American Civil War, may have referred to the bugle call as “Butterfield’s Lullaby.” That bugle call was and is officially known now as "Taps."

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