About One Hundred Nights of Taps, Gettysburg

Beginning on Memorial Day (Monday May 29, 2023) and running through Labor Day, the notes of “Taps” will once more fill the air every evening as the famous 24-note call is sounded in Gettysburg National Cemetery. The Lincoln Fellowship of Pennsylvania and Gettysburg National Military Park will again co-sponsor the seventh year of One Hundred Nights of Taps, Gettysburg in partnership with Taps for Veterans and Gettysburg’s Licensed Battlefield Guides. The program will run nightly at 7 PM at the Soldiers’ National Monument in Gettysburg National Cemetery.

This moving program features two new educational components in 2022. Beginning at 5:30 PM each evening representatives from Gettysburg’s Licensed Battlefield Guides will offer a free interpretive program exploring the aftermath of the battle of Gettysburg and the creation of the National Cemetery in Gettysburg, concluding at the Soldiers’ National Monument. During the formal Taps program beginning at 7 PM representatives from the Lincoln Fellowship, guest National Park Service Rangers, and Licensed Battlefield Guides will offer brief historical vignettes. Called Enduring Pathways, these will focus on Abraham Lincoln, the Gettysburg Address, the history of Taps, and the Soldiers’ National Monument, with topics changing nightly.

The volunteer buglers include active-duty military musicians, military veterans, Civil War living historians and musicians, community band members, high school and college students, and music teachers.