[From official records, Treasury Department.]
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Washington, April 17, 1865.
It is hereby ordered that, in honor to the memory of our late illustrious Chief Magistrate, all officers and others subject to the orders of the Secretary of the Treasury wear crape upon the left arm for the period of six months.
H. McCULLOCH,
Secretary of the Treasury.
[From official records, War Department.]
GENERAL ORDERS, No. 69.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, April 17, 1865.
By direction of the President of the United States the War Department will be closed on Wednesday next, the day of the funeral of the late President of the United States.
Labor on that day will be suspended at all military posts and on all public works under the direction of the War Department. The flags at all military posts, stations, forts, and buildings will be kept at half-staff during the day, and at 12 o'clock m. twenty-one minute guns will be fired from all forts and at all military posts and at the Military Academy.
By order of the Secretary of War: