Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth Congress

Mr. Hunter to Mr. Burnley

Department of State, Washington, April 18, 1865.

Sir: I have the honor to enclose a programme of arrangements for the obsequies of the late President. The religious services will take place at the Executive Mansion at twelve o’clock m. to-morrow. Your attendance at about half-past eleven is invited.

I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, your obedient servant,

W. HUNTER, Acting Secretary.

J. Hume Burnley, Esq., &c., &c., &c.

[Same, mutatis mutandis, to all foreign ministers in the United States.]

Order of the procession.

Funeral escort in column of march.

One regiment of cavalry.

Two batteries of artillery.

Battalion of marines.

Two regiments of infantry.

Commander of escort and staff.

Dismounted officers of marine corps.

Navy and army in the order named.

Mounted officers of marine corps.

Navy and army in the order named.

All military officers to be in uniform, with side-arms.

Civic procession.

Marshal.

Clergy in attendance.

The Surgeon General of the United States and physicians to the deceased.

On the part of the Senate.	On the part of the House.
Mr. Foster, Connecticut.	Mr. Dawes, Massachusetts.
Mr. Morgan, New York.	Mr. Coffroth, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Johnson, Maryland.	Mr. Smith, Kentucky.
Mr. Yates, Illinois.	Mr. Colfax, Indiana.
Mr. Wade, Ohio.	Mr. Worthington, Nevada.
Mr. Conness, California.	Mr. Washburne, Illinois.
Army.	Navy.
Lieutenant General U. S. Grant.	Vice-Admiral D. G. Farragut.
Major General H. W. Halleck.	Rear-Admiral W. B. Shubrick.
Brevet Brigadier General W. A. Nichols.	Colonel Jacob Zeilin, M. C.
Civilians.	Civilians.
O. H. Browning.	O. H. Browning. George Ashmun.
George Ashmun.	Thomas Corwin. Simon Cameron.

The family.

Relatives.

The delegations of the States of Illinois and Kentucky as mourners.

The President.

Thecabinet ministers.

The diplomatic corps.

Ex-Presidents.

The Chief Justice and associate justices of Supreme Court.

The Senate of the United States, preceded by its officers.

The House of Representatives of the United States, preceded by its officers.

Legislatures of the several States and Territories.

The federal judiciary and the judiciary of the several States and Territories.

The Assistant Secretaries of State, Treasury, War. Navy, and Interior, and the Assistant

Postmasters General and Assistant Attorney General.

Officers of Smithsonian Institution.

The members and officers of the Sanitary and Christian Commissions.

Corporate authorities of Washington and Georgetown and other cities.

Delegations of the several States.

The reverend clergy of the various denominations.

The clerks and employés of the several departments and bureaus, preceded by the heads of such bureaus and their respective chief clerks.

Such societies as may wish to join the procession.

Citizens and strangers.

The troops designated to form the escort will assemble in the avenue, north of the President’s house, and form line precisely at 11 o’clock a. m., on Wednesday, the 19th instant, with the left resting on Fifteenth street. The procession will move precisely at 2 o’clock p. m., on the conclusion of the religious services at the Executive Mansion, (appointed to commence at 12 o’clock meridian, ) when minute-guns will be fired by detachments of artillery stationed near St. John’s church, the City Hall, and at the Capitol. At the same hour the bells of the several churches in Washington, Georgetown, and Alexandria will be tolled.

At sunrise on Wednesday, the 19th instant, a federal salute will be fired from the military stations in the vicinity of Washington, minute-guns between the hours of twelve and three o’clock, and a national salute at the setting of the sun.

The usual badge of mourning will be worn on the left arm and on the hilt of the sword.