The two men involved in originating the bugle call Taps had different remembrances of its genesis. Their recollections and a well-researched theory of the call’s creation has been put together by bugle historian Jari Villanueva. Bugler Oliver W. Norton and General Daniel Butterfield created Taps in 1862, revising a portion of an existing Tatoo into the now familiar “lights out” melody. There is also an untrue, but romantic, story of how Taps came to be.