[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.