If you are on Facebook, look up "Duke the Funeral Horse" for an amazing set of entries on the return of Staff Sergeant Cowdrey. The picture above reminded me of a song - more specifically, the end of the song "Free and Green" by David Kincaid, which was written about the Irish soldiers during the Civil War (though it is not contemporaneous to the war, but was written far more recently): Well, we took his body home And the drums and pipes did drone And pulled a fine black casket...