A Unique Kentucky Bugle
It is a bugle made of two slabs of cedar about tbree-sixteenths of an iuoh in thickness and bent into a funuel sbaped horn. Tbe bell or niouth is 13) inches iu circumference. It is hooped with cowhorn rings and ircn bands. The buglo is the property of AIrs. Annie Maybal], granddaughterof the late Captain Robert Collins, wbo was a soldier in the war of 1812-15. It was in the campaign of Colonel Richard M. JobuBon and was at the death of Tecumseh. Captain Collins was a bugler for tbe regiment, and this is the identical instrument he used during the war and which ordered the famous charge ei Colonel Johnson. Captain Collius was a meohanical genius and with his own hands made the instrument. Every morning at sunrise he waked the neighborbood for miles around with bis reveille cali frorn his bugle until bis death in 1864.-
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