To: Howlin
I knew I hadn't spelled it right. (Does that mean the Army fight song is based on funeral equipment?)
444 posted on
06/09/2004 2:41:16 PM PDT by
lainie
To: lainie
Does that mean the Army fight song is based on funeral equipment?) A caisson was used by the horse-drawn artillery. The Army Song (not a fight song at all) comes from that scenario.
481 posted on
06/09/2004 2:44:43 PM PDT by
aBootes
To: lainie
No, a caisson is used for artillery ammunition and supply transport, a modified carriage or cart.
492 posted on
06/09/2004 2:45:54 PM PDT by
HiJinx
(Go with courage, go with honor, go in God's good Grace. Come home when it's time. We'll be here.)
To: lainie
The caisson and the six horses that pull it originally was used to supply soldiers on the fighting lines. The three horses are riderless because in the original caissons go rolling along those riderless horses carried supplies.
It has not always had the funereal reference.
552 posted on
06/09/2004 2:51:14 PM PDT by
AKA Elena
(Catholic, through the Grace of God, Conservative to the bone)
To: lainie
Does that mean the Army fight song is based on funeral equipment?) No, it's just a kind of vehicle/cart.
581 posted on
06/09/2004 2:54:27 PM PDT by
Terriergal
(Ps27:5 "For in the day of trouble he will keep me safe in His dwelling;")
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