A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 38 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 38 pages of information about A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents.

Religious ceremonies will be observed in the Rotunda at 3 o’clock on Friday afternoon.  At 5 o’clock the remains will be transferred to the funeral car and be removed to Cleveland, Ohio, via the Pennsylvania Railroad, arriving there Saturday at 2 p.m.  In Cleveland the remains will lie in state until Monday at 2 p.m., and be then interred in Lakeview Cemetery.  No ceremonies are expected in the cities and towns along the route of the funeral train beyond the tolling of bells.  Detailed arrangements for final sepulture are committed to the municipal authorities of Cleveland, under the direction of the executive of the State of Ohio.

JAMES G. BLAINE,
Secretary of State.

OFFICIAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE FUNERAL.

[From official records, War Department.]

Order of Arrangement for the Funeral at Washington City of James A.
Garfield, Late President of the United States.

The remains of the late President will lie in state in the Rotunda of the Capitol until 3 o’clock p.m. on Friday, the 23d instant, when they will be borne to the depot of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad and thence conveyed to their final resting place at Cleveland, Ohio.

Order of Procession.

FUNERAL ESCORT.

(Under command of Brevet Major-General R.B.  Ayres.)
Battalion of District of Columbia Volunteers. 
Battalion of marines. 
Battalion of foot artillery. 
Battery of light artillery.

CIVIC PROCESSION.

(Under command of Chief Marshal Colonel Robert Boyd.)
Clergymen in attendance. 
Physicians who attended the late President. 
Guard of honor. 
Guard of honor. 
Hearse. 
Bearers. 
Bearers.

(The officers of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps in the city, and not on duty with the troops forming the escort, in full dress, will form, right in front, on either side of the hearse—­the Army on the right and the Navy and Marine Corps on the left—­and compose the guard of honor.)

Family of the late President. 
Relatives of the late President. 
Ex-Presidents of the United States. 
The President. 
The Cabinet ministers. 
The Diplomatic Corps. 
The Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the
  United States. 
The Senators of the United States. 
Members of the United States House of Representatives. 
Governors of States and Territories and Commissioners of the
  District of Columbia. 
The judges of the Court of Claims, the judiciary of the
  District of Columbia, and judges of the United States courts. 
The Assistant Secretaries of State, Treasury, and Interior Departments. 
The Assistant Postmasters-General. 
The Solicitor-General and the Assistant Attorneys-General. 
Organized societies. 
Citizens and strangers.

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