Death has made the face younger by ten years. The body is clothes in broadcloth. Above the buttons of the Prince Albert coat a gold stud glistens. There is a plain gold ring on the little finger of his left hand. The stud and the ring are the only jewelry.
White stockings show above the tops of patent leather slippers.
T he body lies quite flat, but the head is raised slightly by its pillow of satin, bringing the face into fine relief. The coffin rests in the middle of the room where the General's bed stood when he died. The General's sick chair stands in one corner of the room. The body was placed in the coffin about dusk. An hour's preparation was needed to make the transfer.