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Head Quarters Brown's Brigade
March 2ond 1863
General Order
No (11) 73 (72)
I. The following Stated calls will be observed untill further orders
Revillee Call at 6 oclock A. M
Surgeons Call " 7 " " "
Guard Mounting " " 8 " " "
Morning Drill " 9 " " "
Evning Drill " 3 " P. M
Retreat " Sunset " "
Tattoo " 9 oclock " "
Taps " 9 1/2 " " "
II. The Signals will first be Sounded by the 32ond Tenn Regiment and takend up and repeated by the other Regiments in succession
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By order Brig General [John C.] Brown
C. G. Rogers A A Genl
__________________________________________________ _____________________
Note: The above order extract is transcribed "as is." For most of the war, "Brown's/Palmer's Brigade" consisted of the 18th, 26th, 32nd, and 45th Tennessee regiments as well as the 23rd (Newman's) Tennessee Battalion.
Images of Brigadier General John C. Brown, Brigadier General J. P. Palmer, and Colonel C. G. Rogers can be found in: Lindsley, John Berrien. The Military Annals of Tennessee. Confederate. Nashville TN: J. M. Lindsley & Co., Publishers, 1886 [reprinted 1986 by The Reprint Company, Publishers, Spartanburg SC, 1974], p. 175 and 359.
Source: NARA RG 109, Ch. VIII, Vol. 340, "Miscellaneous Orders Received and Issued, Newman's Battalion of Tennessee Volunteers, 1862-1864."
>>>>>>>>>>> THANKS TO Mark Jaeger for finding this and transcribing it 'as is'.
Cool cite Mark. In this case I don't feel that the bugle call "Taps" is Butterfield's Lullaby. CSA, Western Theatre, no contact with Army of the Potomac buglers who might have 'taught' them the Taps call. We have plenty of references to Taps being sounded at the end of the day or for Funerals....but it's prior to the call as we know it today being invented. For example, The 10th NY Cavalry ("67 Days Before Gettysburg") has a soldier die of illness in November 1861, Taps is sounded at the grave site as dirt is thrown on the coffin. And Taps is in the call schedule as the last call of the day for this drum less Cavalry regiment.
The "Taps" call in this case, my best guess, is "To Extinguish Lights".
Note that the other calls may require multiple bugle calls (e.g. Assembly of the Buglers, Assembly, To the Color for Parade). Note the echoing of the calls by regimental buglers is specifically spelled out (we usually sound in Brigade order or proximity order, nearest to HQ first). And my other guess is that the Field Musics plays ALL of these calls as well, after their battalion bugler is finished sounding.
RJ Samp
RJ Samp
Head Quarters Brown's Brigade
March 2ond 1863
General Order
No (11) 73 (72)
I. The following Stated calls will be observed untill further orders
Revillee Call at 6 oclock A. M
Surgeons Call " 7 " " "
Guard Mounting " " 8 " " "
Morning Drill " 9 " " "
Evning Drill " 3 " P. M
Retreat " Sunset " "
Tattoo " 9 oclock " "
Taps " 9 1/2 " " "
II. The Signals will first be Sounded by the 32ond Tenn Regiment and takend up and repeated by the other Regiments in succession
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By order Brig General [John C.] Brown
C. G. Rogers A A Genl
__________________________________________________ _____________________
Note: The above order extract is transcribed "as is." For most of the war, "Brown's/Palmer's Brigade" consisted of the 18th, 26th, 32nd, and 45th Tennessee regiments as well as the 23rd (Newman's) Tennessee Battalion.
Images of Brigadier General John C. Brown, Brigadier General J. P. Palmer, and Colonel C. G. Rogers can be found in: Lindsley, John Berrien. The Military Annals of Tennessee. Confederate. Nashville TN: J. M. Lindsley & Co., Publishers, 1886 [reprinted 1986 by The Reprint Company, Publishers, Spartanburg SC, 1974], p. 175 and 359.
Source: NARA RG 109, Ch. VIII, Vol. 340, "Miscellaneous Orders Received and Issued, Newman's Battalion of Tennessee Volunteers, 1862-1864."
>>>>>>>>>>> THANKS TO Mark Jaeger for finding this and transcribing it 'as is'.
Cool cite Mark. In this case I don't feel that the bugle call "Taps" is Butterfield's Lullaby. CSA, Western Theatre, no contact with Army of the Potomac buglers who might have 'taught' them the Taps call. We have plenty of references to Taps being sounded at the end of the day or for Funerals....but it's prior to the call as we know it today being invented. For example, The 10th NY Cavalry ("67 Days Before Gettysburg") has a soldier die of illness in November 1861, Taps is sounded at the grave site as dirt is thrown on the coffin. And Taps is in the call schedule as the last call of the day for this drum less Cavalry regiment.
The "Taps" call in this case, my best guess, is "To Extinguish Lights".
Note that the other calls may require multiple bugle calls (e.g. Assembly of the Buglers, Assembly, To the Color for Parade). Note the echoing of the calls by regimental buglers is specifically spelled out (we usually sound in Brigade order or proximity order, nearest to HQ first). And my other guess is that the Field Musics plays ALL of these calls as well, after their battalion bugler is finished sounding.
RJ Samp
RJ Samp