"Corporal Harnett is certainly the worst bugler in the entire Union Army, and his efforts set everyone on edge. Last week the Major discovered the wooden case in which Harnett kept the instrument, and after one particularly wretched rendition of the morning call (and, perhaps, fueled by too much liquor during the preceding night), the Major violently trampled the cabinet in which all those sour notes were stored, turning it into a mess of splinters and crumpled brass. This gave rise to a general apprehension that, despite his lesser rank, Harnett might retaliate in some fashion, but, as it turned out, even he was relieved." Letter from William Harris to Julia Ward Howe, October 27, 1861
"Corporal Harnett is certainly the worst bugler in the entire Union Army, and his efforts set everyone on edge. Last week the Major discovered the wooden case in which Harnett kept the instrument, and after one particularly wretched rendition of the morning call (and, perhaps, fueled by too much liquor during the preceding night), the Major violently trampled the cabinet in which all those sour notes were stored, turning it into a mess of splinters and crumpled brass. This gave rise to a general apprehension that, despite his lesser rank, Harnett might retaliate in some fashion, but, as it turned out, even he was relieved." Letter from William Harris to Julia Ward Howe, October 27, 1861