invited to meet in their respective places of worship at that hour for the purpose of solemnizing the occasion with appropriate ceremonies. W. HUNTER, Acting Secretary of State. OFFICIAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE FUNERAL. [From official records, War Department.] WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, April 17, 1865. The following order of arrangement is directed: ORDER OF THE PROCESSION. FUNERAL ESCORT. (In column of march.) One regiment of cavalry. Battalion of marines. Two regiments of infantry. Commander of escort and staff. Dismounted officers of Marine Corps, Navy, and Army, in the order named. CIVIC PROCESSION. Marshal. Clergy in attendance. The Surgeon-General of the United States Army and physicians to the deceased. Hearse. On the part of the Senate: Mr. Foster, of Connecticut; Mr. Morgan, of New York; Mr. Johnson, of Maryland; Mr. Yates, of Illinois; Mr. Wade, of Ohio; Mr. Conness, of California. On the part of the House: Mr. Dawes, of Massachusetts; Mr. Coffroth, of Pennsylvania; Mr. Smith, of Kentucky; Mr. Colfax, of Indiana; Mr. Worthington, of Nevada; Mr. Washburne, of Illinois. Army: Lieutenant-General U. S. Grant; Major-General H. W. Halleck; Brevet Brigadier-General W. A. Nichols. Navy: Vice-Admiral D. G. Farragut; Rear-Admiral W. B. Shubr ̊ck; Colonel Jacob Zelin, Marine Corps. Civilians: O. H. Browning, George Ashman, Thomas Corwin, Simon Cameron. Family. The delegations of the States of Illinois and Kentucky, as mourners. The President. The Cabinet ministers. The diplomatic corps. Ex-Presidents. The Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court. Preceded by their officers. Members of the House of Representatives of the United States. Legislatures of the several States and Territories. The Federal judiciary and the judiciary of the several States and Territories. The Assistant Secretaries of State, Treasury, War, Navy, Interior, and the Assistant Postmasters-General, and the Assistant Attorney-General. Officers of the Smithsonian Institution. The members and officers of the Sanitary and Christian Commissions. The reverend the clergy of the various denominations. The clerks and employees of the several Departments and bureaus, preceded by the The troops designated to form the escort will assemble in the Avenue, north of the President's house, and form line precisely at 11 o'clock a. m. on Wednesday, the 19th instant, with the left resting on Fifteenth street. The procession will move precisely at 2 o'clock p. m., on the conclusion of the religious services at the Executive Mansion (appointed to commence at 12 o'clock m.), when minute guns will be fired by detachments of artillery stationed near St. John's Church, the City Hall, and at the Capitol. At the same hour the bells of the several churches in Washington, Georgetown, and Alexandria will be tolled. At sunrise on Wednesday, the 19th instant, a Federal salute will be fired from the military stations in the vicinity of Washington, minute guns between the hours of 12 and 3 o'clock, and a national salute at the setting of the sun. The usual badge of mourning will be worn on the left arm and on the hilt of the sword. · By order of the Secretary of War: W. A. NICHOLS, Assistant Adjutant-General. The funeral ceremonies took place in the East Room of the Executive Mansion at noon on the 19th of April, and the remains were then escorted to the Capitol, where they lay in state in the Rotunda. On the morning of April 21 the remains were taken from the Capitol and placed in a funeral car, in which they were taken to Springfield, Ill. Halting at the principal cities along the route, that appropriate honors might be paid to the deceased, the funeral cortege arrived on the 3d of May at Springfield, Ill., and the next day the remains were deposited in Oak Ridge Cemetery, near that city. GUARD OF HONOR. [From official records, War Department.] GENERAL ORDERS, No. 72. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, April 20, 1865. The following general officers and guard of honor will accompany the remains of the late President from the city of Washington to Springfield, the capital of the State of Illinois, and continue with them until they are consigned to their final resting place: Brevet Brigadier-General E. D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant-General, to represent the Secretary of War. Brevet Brigadier-General Charles Thomas, Assistant QuartermasterGeneral.* Brigadier-General A. B. Eaton, Commissary-General of Subsistence. Brevet Brigadier-General D. C. McCallum, Superintendent Military Railroads. Major-General D. Hunter, United States Volunteers. By order of the Secretary of War: E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant-General. [From official records, Navy Department.] SPECIAL ORDER. APRIL 20, 1865. The following officers of the Navy and Marine Corps will accompany the remains of the late President from the city of Washington to Springfield, the capital of the State of Illinois, and continue with them until they are consigned to their final resting place: Rear-Admiral Charles Henry Davis, Chief Bureau Navigation. GIDEON WELLES, Secretary of the Navy. 'Brevet Brigadier-General James A. Ekin, Quartermaster's Department, United States Army, .substituted. |