A viral and false Facebook post from 2014 about the origins of the military's bugle melody known as "Taps" is receiving a new surge of shares. The old post tells a fabricated Civil War story of a ...

(In the southeast corner of the 2,000-acre Sakura Park in New York City stands a bronze statue of Maj. Gen. Daniel Butterfield, a Civil War hero born and raised in Utica. It was sculpted by Gutzon ...

The solemn U.S. military bugle call "Taps" originated with a Union Army father finding the melody written on paper in the pocket of his deceased Confederate soldier son. Rating: False (About this ...

As the nation marks Memorial Day, the somber call of "Taps" will honor military veterans who made the ultimate sacrifice.