caisson

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For years, members of the tiny preservation society — their ages now ranging from 60s to 80s — have flown out in helicopters, landing on the caisson.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2025

A soldier, gingerly, with almost mechanical precision, removed the silver urn containing Megellas’s cremated remains from the caisson and carried it to the gravesite.

From Washington Post • Sep. 6, 2022

The next day, the casket was carried out of the Capitol, down the central stairs on the east side of the complex and strapped onto a waiting horse-drawn caisson.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2021

On November 11, 1921, the Unknown was placed on a horse-drawn caisson and carried in a procession through Washington, D.C. and across the Potomac River.

From Fox News • Oct. 4, 2021

Moment ago there had been men moving all along the crest, men sitting and wandering and riding horses, artillery moving here and there, a wagon, a caisson.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara