Answer the following about the supposed history of the creation of the bugle call “Taps,” which is now commonly used at military funerals. For 10 points each:
[10m] “Taps” may have been written at the Berkeley plantation formerly owned by this family, which names a nearby “landing.” A president from this family campaigned on having won the Battle of Tippecanoe.
ANSWER: Harrison family [accept William Henry Harrison; accept Harrison’s Landing]
[10h] “Taps” was supposedly first played by a bugler with this first name and the names Wilcox Norton. A commander with this first name wrote “We have met the enemy and they are ours” in a telegram to William Henry Harrison.
ANSWER: Oliver [accept Oliver Hazard Perry or Oliver Wilcox Norton] (Oliver Otis Howard is the namesake of Howard University.)
[10e] General Daniel Butterfield is usually credited with composing “Taps” after attempting to capture this city in the Seven Days’ Battles. This longest-serving capital of the Confederacy is the current capital of Virginia.
ANSWER: Richmond
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