W.A. NICHOLS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
[From General Orders and Circulars, Navy Department, 1863 to 1887.]
SPECIAL ORDER.
APRIL 17, 1865.
By order of the President of the United States the Navy Department will be closed on Wednesday next, the day of the funeral solemnities of the late President of the United States. Labor will also be suspended on that day at each of the navy-yards and naval stations and upon all the vessels of the United States. The flags of all vessels and at all the navy yards and stations and marine barracks will be kept at half-mast during the day, and at 12 o'clock m. twenty-one minute guns will be fired by the senior officer of each squadron and the commandants of the navy yards and stations.
GIDEON WELLES,
Secretary of the Navy.
[From the Daily National Intelligencer, April 18, 1865.]
POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT,
Washington, April 17, 1865.
To Deputy Postmasters:
Business in all the post-offices of the United States will be suspended and the offices closed from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, the 19th instant, during the funeral solemnities of Abraham Lincoln, late President of the United States.