A Civil War Union Army general who graduated from Union College, Schenectady, in 1848 has left us with a heartfelt and haunting musical legacy. Brigadier Gen. Daniel Butterfield created the haunting ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Perhaps the most recognized 24 notes ever played on a bugle, “Taps” is known as the National Song of Remembrance, and is a call unique to the United States military.

(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 ...

Perhaps the most poignant and distinctive melody ever composed is the one that marks the close of day at American military bases and is played at military funerals and memorial observances. The ...