Yes VICKIE Color pics galore!!!

Go to www.wcsc.com/hunley/gallery.htm

awesome pics with constant updates!!

thanks Ironclad.that web site has great photos.Wish I could see it in person!Simply amazing after all those years under water!
Vickie

Great pictures of the Hunley.
I have one question though regarding a technicality (as usual). One of the photos shows a bugler in period seaman's uniform playing "Taps".
Was "Taps" used by the Confederacy? Didn't Taps originate with the North during the Civil War? In other words, is it technicaly correct to play Taps as a show of respect for Southern Civil War Dead?

Just a thought.
Bill N-T

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that Dan Butterfield (Union) "invented" TAPS. Although I don't think it was called TAPS then. I think the beginning of what we know as TAPS was a signal to notify the unit Butterfield commanded that the next orders blown, were for that unit. If I'm mistaken someone please let me know.
Bob

Bob,
The way I understand it, Ol' Dan Butterfield came up with a bugle call to preceed calls for his unit (V Corps I think at the time) so that his men would know the next call was for them. That call was a few simple notes. "Taps" on the other hand may or may not have been written by Butterfield, but it's a distinctly different call from the "ID call" mentioned above. There are of course, like all else connected with the Civil War, various legends connected with the authorship of Taps, but I believe it's Butterfield who's usually credited with writing it.
But, back to my original question, is it technically correct to play Taps to honor Confederate Civil War dead, since "Taps" is a Union bugle call?
Bill N-T

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