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]
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.