Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-04-14
Cen. Thomas, Funeral.

public and private buildings, the dense
crowd that had already assembled, signi-
fed to us that the last sad rites were
about to be paid to the memory of Amer
ica's noble son, General Geo. Ell. Thomas.
A brighter sunshine never entered the
city, and never before was Troy visited
by SO many distinguished guests from
abroad.
By special permission we were allowed
to enter st. Johns church, in the central
vestibule of which was the casket contain
ing the remains, covered in the most
tasteful manner with wreaths and crosses
of beautiful flowers. From thence we
went to the residence of Hon. J. M. Fran
els of the Troy Times, where President
Grant was holding reception. An i'm
mense crowd had assembled to shake the
hand of the President.
Most of the prominent business firms of
the city closed their doors to-day out of
respect to the occasion.
1t is said that Troy never was SO full of
visitors as it was to-day, not even at the
funeral of Maj. Gen. Wool, in October
last.
Through the courtesy of Messrs. Hay
ner and Shaw, Attorneys, in Troy, we Sc
cured an excellent position on River
street, to view the procession, which was
forty minutes in passing the point where
Ne were seated-the largest ever formed
in Troy.
The solemn tread of the soldiery, that
responded to the plaintive dirges of the
several bands, the mufHed drums, the
tolling bells, the draped and furled ban
ners, and the trailed arms of the soldiery,
made the scene a solemn and impressive
one.
The following is the order of the COR
tege as it passed us:
Capt, Schwartzman's cavalry of Albany.
Gen Woodhall, commanding Third Division Nat.
Guards, and staff.
Twenty-ffth Regiment of Albany, Col. Fried.
lander.
Police, under command of Capt. Cary.
Sullivan's Band.
Tenth Regiment, Albany, Col. Farnsworth.
Doring's Band of Troy.
Twenty-fourth Regiment, Col. steenberg.
Battery B Capt. Scott.
Bennington Band.
Loshart's Troy Zouaves.
Utica Veteran Zouaves.
Utica Citizens Corps, Col. Davies.
Albany Drum Corps.
Albany Burgesses' Corps, Capt. Taylor.
,1o,r4
West Point Band.
First Artillery Band.
Co. a, permanent party, Fort Columbus.
CO. M, First Artillery.
Co. d, First Artillery.
Co. A, L. S! Engineers.
Co. C, U. s. Engineers.
The clergy in two carriages
Bishop Doane and Drs. Colt and Tucker.
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HEARSE.
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Followed by the Generals horse and thanked by
detail of Arsenal soldiers.
The Pail Bearers, as follows: Maj. Gems Meade,
Rosecrans, Hazen, schofeld, Granger,
Newton, Mckay and Hooker.
President Grant and Cabinet.
General Sherman, Secretary Cresweu and Gem.
Alden.
Gems. Dent and Porter Of Presidents staff
Mourners.
Army Officers
Officers Of the Society of Cumberland.
Gen. Alden, Marshal, and staff.
Maj. Gen. Mcdowell and staff
Band OF West Point.
Band of Governors leland
Senate Committee, comprising Senators Wilson
Fenton and others.
Committee of House of Representatives, includ-
ing Gems. Logan, Banks and Others.
Governor Hoffman and staff.
The Legislature of the State.
Gems. Underwood and HaIlowen.
Citizens of Indiana.
Gems Barnum and Avery
Mayor and Common Council Of Albany.
Gen. Meade,s staff,
Officers of the Volunteer Army
Common Council OF Troy.
The streets through which the cortege
passed were crowded to repletion.
The casket was placed i'll lakewood GEN.
etery in family vault, which we suppose
to be that sf Hon. Warren Kellogg,
the father ofsMrs. Thomas.
1t would be useless and impossible to
attempt an enumeration of the people from
abroad who were present on this occasion
Every portions of the country had it,
representatives here.
From Vermont we noticed Gen. Geo. A
Stannard of st. Adams, Col. J. W. Bar.
low of the U. S. Army Geo. III. Bigelow
Hon. P. D. Ballou and e. A Jewett, Bur.
lington; Hon. A. B. Gardner and John
Y. Hall, Bennington; Geo. f. Houghton
and Geo. Hunt, st. Adams Gen. Ripley,
Col. Joyce, z. V. K. Wilson F. Chaffe
and Geo. Crawford of Rutland.
The mention of the last name reminds
us of another set of men that were pre-.
sent on the occasion, the kind of men
whom he delights to pick up and provide
lodgings for--the light-fngered gentry.
Many watch and pocketbook were
made to change their owners to-day in
dense crowds that assembled near St
Johns church and the Depot. As we now
write surging crowd is pressing forward
with hope to get view of President
Grant who has just entered Hudson
River Railroad car on his homeward trip.
Cheer upon cheer goes up for General
Grant and at the same time pickpockets
are doubtless plying their vocation. The
crowd is densely packed, having entered
in from the various points of the city pre-.
paratory to starting for their homes.
How many were in attendance it is i'm.
possible to even give an approximate est.
mate but it is thought that from 10000 to
lOO,OOO persons were witnesses of the sad
and imposing ceremonies of this day
III.
TROY, March s.
CoRREcTIoN.-In our notice of Mr.
Ferrin, the new Auditor of Accounts, it
was said Governor Hendee was his uncle