Show A famous old bugle A old curiosity is temporarily in he possession of the kentucky historical society at it is a bugle made of two slabs of cedar about tareo of an inch in and bent into a tunnel shaped hom the bell or month is inches in circumference cum ference it is with cow horn rings and iron bands the angle is the property of mrs anna mayhall granddaughter of tho lato captain robert collins who was a soldier in the war of 1812 15 it was used in the campaign of colonel richard M johnson and was at the death of tecumseh captain collins was a bugler for tho regiment and this is tho instrument he ased daring the war and which ordered the famous charge of colonel johnson captain collins was a mechanical genius and with his own hands made the instrument every morning at sunrise he waked the neighbors for miles around with his reveille call from the buglo until his death in 1864 frankfort Ky CalL |