ESCORT (Fr. (scorn, It. scoria, guide, from scoryco, to guide, from Lat. out eorriycre, to correct, from coo?, together 4- rrqcrc, to direct). In the United States Army, escorts are of t WO kinds—escorts of honor, and funeral escorts. Escorts of honor are picked bodies of troops, detailed to receive and escort personages of high rank, civil or military. The troops as signed for this duty may be composed of cavalry, artillery, or infantry, but are invariably selected for their soldierly appearance and superior dis cipline. An officer is also) detailed to attend the personage escorted, and bear communications from lihn to the commander of the escort. The strength and character of such escort is largely determined by the status of the personage es corted. Funeral escorts are bodies of troops in numbers appropriate to the rank and grade of the deceased, detailed to attend and escort the funeral cortege, as may be ordered. The United States Army Regulations order that for the funeral escort of the Secretary of War, or Gen eral of the Army, a regiment of infantry, a.
squadron of cavalry, and two batteries of field artillery form the detail ; for the lieutenant-gen eral, a regiment of infantry, a squadron of cav alry, and a battery of field artillery; for a major general, a regiment of infantry, two troops of cavalry, and a battery of field artillery: for a brigadier-general. a regiment of infantry, a troop of cavalry, and a platoon of field artil lery: for a colonel, a regiment; a lieutenant colonel or major, a battalion or squadron; a captain, one company: a subaltern, a platoon; non-commissioned staff officer, 1G rank and file under a sergeant; a sergeant, 14 rank and file under a sergeant; a corporal, 12 rank and file under a corporal; a private, S rank and file un der a corporal. The coffin is carried on a gun carriage, which is used without the caisson, as a rule. Six pall-bearers are selected from the grade of the deceased, or from the grade immedi ately above or below.