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,

ADJUTANT-GENERAL’S OFFICE,

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
Quartermaster-General.[17]

[Footnote 17:  Brevet Brigadier-General James A. Ekin, Quartermaster’s Department, United States Army, substituted.]

Brigadier-General A.B.  Eaton, Commissary-General of Subsistence.

Brevet Major-General J.G.  Barnard, Lieutenant-Colonel of Engineers.

Brigadier-General G.D.  Ramsay, Ordnance Department.

Brigadier-General A.P.  Howe, Chief of Artillery.

Brevet Brigadier-General D.C.  McCallum, Superintendent Military
Railroads.

Major-General D. Hunter, United States Volunteers.

Brigadier-General J.C.  Caldwell, United States Volunteers.

Twenty-five picked men, under a captain.

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.

Captain William Rogers Taylor, United States Navy.

Major Thomas V. Field, United States Marine Corps.

GIDEON WELLES,
  Secretary of the Navy.