Anthem written by an unknown Confederate soldier during the Civil War. The legend tied to Taps starts at the opening of the Civil War when a Union officer forces his son to go to school to keep him from joining the war. Several long years later, at Gettysburg, during a lull in the fighting, the officer hears a wounded soldier moaning in "no man's land." Without regard for his own life or the fact that the soldier might be the enemy, the officer manages to drag the wounded soldier back to his encampment. He discovers that it his son, who had left school to join the Confederates. In his now-dead son's hand is a letter, on one side he apologizes to his family and his fiancee, on the other is a few notes for piano. The officer manages to get his son buried with full honors despite his being a Confederate soldiers. At the funeral, all they can manage is a single trumpeteer, who, at the request of the officer, plays his son's composition, Taps.