Boots and Saddles (bugle call) explained
"Boots and Saddles" is a bugle call sounded for mounted troops to mount and take their place in line.[1] In the British Army it is used as a parade call.[2] Its name drives from the French phrase boute-selle, "put on saddle".[3]
The call has been used by the United States Army during the American Civil War[4] as well as World War II.[5] While the call was originally meant to apply exclusively to cavalry,[6] it was used later as an inspiring call for other military units as well.[5]
The tune was recorded in 1919 for the Victor Talking Machine Company's "Bugle Calls of the U.S. Army: Part 1".[7]
In literature
"Boots and Saddles" is blown several times in Mark Twain's 1907 novel A Horse's Tale.[8]
Elizabeth Bacon Custer's 1885 biography of her husband, General George Armstrong Custer, was titled Boots and Saddles: Or, Life in Dakota with General Custer.[9]
References
- Book: Gilman . Daniel Coit . Colby . Frank Moore . Peck . Harry Thurston . The New International Encyclopedia . 1905 . Dodd, Mead . 310.
- [Byron Farwell]
- Wedgwood. Hensleigh. Hensleigh Wedgwood. On False Etymologies. Transactions of the Philological Society. 1855. 6. 70.
- Book: Nesbitt . Mark . Saber & Scapegoat: J. E. B. Stuart and the Gettysburg Controversy . 2001 . Stackpole Books . 9780811741361 . 4 July 2020.
- Book: Tillman . Barrett . Enterprise: America's Fightingest Ship and the Men Who Helped Win World War II . 2012 . Simon & Schuster . 9781439190890 . 36 . 4 July 2020.
- News: What the Bugles Tell in the Army and Navy . 4 July 2020 . . June 5, 1898 . 1.
- Book: Catalogue of Victor Records . 1919 . Victor Talking Machine Company . 4 July 2020.
- Book: Twain . Mark . A Horse's Tale . 1907 . Harper and Brothers . 4 July 2020.
- Web site: Libbie Custer: 'A Wounded Thing Must Hide' . Hutton . Paul Andrew . August 16, 2017 . HistoryNet . April 5, 2020.
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