This article originally appeared in the pages of the Gettysburg Times, September of 2024. It was penned by Wendy Allen of the Lincoln Fellowship of Pennsylvania, in the hopes of sharing the work the Fellowship does.

One Hundred Nights of Taps, Gettysburg, 2024

Gettysburg National Cemetery

Gettysburg National Military Park

Gettysburg, PA, 2024

To these most gifted musicians Brian Poffenberger, Kaitlynn Gaff, Doug Rudisill, Robert Hawke, Mark Young, Graham Bentley, Jeff Stockham, Mitchell Mummert, Jeff Miller, Alan Ashley, John Charow, Howard Billig, Albert Lilly, Robert Roll, Lou Dileo, David Bufalini, Kevin McCarty, Steve Snyder, Thomas Sneeringer, Shirley Ann Walker, Jim McDevitt, Kevin Paul, Nathaniel Bauder, Jamie Cope, Kevin Czarnik, John Baker, Greg Murphy, Ron Glazer, Robert Beaver, Amy Gabriele, Evan Frantz, Ryan Bowden, Andrew Bisnett, Priscilla King, Jocelyn Hammond,Thomas Herman, Ron Ciasullo, Mitchell Hourt, Vince Pettinelli, Ken Bair, Ralph Brodt, Howard Billig, Katie Gaff, Brian Wilkie, Cameron Sands, Damon Morris, Stephen Bottom, Keith Lippincott, Liam Gallagher, George Boyd, Neil King, Judy Shellenberger, Anthony Nunes, David Apple, Randall McGuire, Warren Prender, Ian Monaghan, Michael Krauss, Scotty Clark, Robert Slamp, Joseph Dupesko, Drew Podnar, Brooks Brady, Brig. General Jeffrey Newton, John R. Thomas, Joshua Cooper, Landon Rosekrans, Aaron Robertson, Peter Sharrock, Jim Shufelt, Henry Dillon, Benjamin McClelland, Albert Trapani, Tom Hehman, John Lupp, Anthony June, Keith DeFontes, Nicholas Brown-Cáceres, Max Osborn and Lucas Fleming,Wes Snyder, Ryan Fox, David Beier, Erin Bannon, Debra Skripkunis, Tom Beaver, Michael Wood, Chris Myers, Donald Roeder, Russ Ebersole, Rick Barnes, Jim Steele, Jari Villanueva, Harold Collins, Jay Copenhaver, Jim Steele, Robert Balmer, and Jay Copenhaver, 

and the most talented and dedicated program volunteers John Tuskan, Sandy Tuskan, and Scott Burkett, 

and our special co-sponsor, Gettysburg National Military Park and our gifted program partners, Taps for Veterans, Association of Licensed Battlefield Guides, and Eisenhower National Historic Site, 

the Lincoln Fellowship of Pennsylvania extends its profound praise and gratitude for making One Hundred Nights of Taps, Gettysburg, 2024 a great and meaningful success.

Join us next summer when the Lincoln Fellowship of Pennsylvania will present, One Hundred Nights of Taps, Gettysburg, 2025. For the ninth year, beginning on Memorial Day (Monday, May 26, 2025) and running through Labor Day (Monday, September 1, 2025), the notes of “Taps” will once more fill the air every evening as the famous 24-note call is sounded in Gettysburg National Cemetery.

Each evening will feature two educational components. Beginning at 5:30 P. M. 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 P. M. representatives from the Lincoln Fellowship, guest National Park Service Rangers, and Licensed Battlefield Guides will again offer brief historical vignettes. Called Enduring Pathways, these focus on Abraham Lincoln, the Gettysburg Address, the history of Taps, and the Soldiers’ National Monument, with topics changing nightly.

And, of course, we will welcome the volunteer buglers that include active-duty military musicians, military veterans, Civil War living historians and musicians, community band members, high school and college students, and music teachers, to sound Taps.