A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 445 pages of information about A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents.

A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 445 pages of information about A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents.

CIVIC PROCESSION. 
Marshal. 
Clergy in attendance. 
The Surgeon-General of the United States Army and physicians
to the deceased. 
Hearse.

Pallbearers.

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.  Shubrick; Colonel
Jacob Zelin, Marine Corps.

Civilians:  O.H.  Browning, George Ashman, Thomas Corwin, Simon Cameron.

Family. 
Relatives. 
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. 
The Senate of the United States. 
Preceded by their officers. 
Members of the House of Representatives of the United States. 
Governors of the several States and Territories. 
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. 
Corporate authorities of Washington, Georgetown, and other cities. 
Delegations of the several States. 
The reverend the clergy of the various denominations. 
The clerks and employees of the several Departments and bureaus,
preceded by the heads of such bureaus and their respective chief
clerks. 
Such societies as may wish to join the procession. 
Citizens and strangers.

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.

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