Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-10-21
Especial Tell gram to the Richmond Dispatch
LEXINGTON, Va, 2 O'CLOCK p. NJ,
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J welfare and success he ever manifested sc
lively an interest the sovereign represen
tatives of his native, loved Virginia the
| citizens of the town and county whom he
honored with his last days in fact, every
class, young and old, rich and poor, white
and black, turned out to do him honor
for he was the friend of all. With pune
tuality which would have been pleasant to
the great hero if living, the following was
| observed as the order of the processiou:
Music.
! Escort of Honor, consisting of Officers and
Soldiers of the Confederate Army.
Chaplain and other Clergy.
Hearse and Pail, Bearers.
General Lees Horse.
The Attending Ply icians.
Trustees and Faculty of Washington Col
lege.
Dignitaries of the State of Virginia.
Visitors and Faculty of Virginia Military
Institute.
Other Representative Bodies and Diatin-
guished Visitors.
Alumni of Washington College.
Citizens.
Cadets Virginia Military Institute
students Washington College us Guard OF
Honor.
At ten o'clock precisely the procession
was formed on the college grounds in front
= .
Washington street, up Jefferson street to
the Franklin Hall. thence to Main street,
where it was joined in front of the hotel
by the representatives Of the State Of Vir-
glnla and other representative bodies in
their order, and by the organized body of
the citizens in front of the court house.
The procession then moved by the road
to the Virginia Military Institute, where
it was joined by the visitors, Faculty, and
1T 80 h. T,IS
in their respective places. The procession
was closed by the students of Washington
College as a guard of honor, and then
moved up through the Institute and col
iege grounds to the chapel.
The procession was halted in front of
the chapel, when the cadets of the Insti-
tute and the students of Washington Col
lege were marched through the college
chapel past the remains, and were after
wards drawn upin two bodies on the south
side of the chapel. The remainder of tho
procession then proceeded into the chapel
and were seated under the direction of the
marshals. The gallery and side blocks
were reserved for ladies'
AS the procession moved off to solemn
dirge by the Institute band, the bells of
the town began to toll, and the Institute
battery fred minute guns, which were kept
up during the whole exercises.
In front of the National Hotel the pro-
cession was joined by the committee Of
the Legislature, consisting of Col. W, II.
Taylor, Col E. D. Pendleton, W. L. Rid
dick, Maj. Kelley, George Walker, s. s.
Turner, Ell. Bowen. T. o. Jackson, and
Marshall Hanger the delegation from the
city of Staunton, headed by Col. Bolivar
Christian and other prominent citizens !;
Col. G. s. Venable, Chairman of the
Faculty, and committee of students from
ho nj ~ fC
of course understood that there would have
been large numbers of other delegations
but for the known inability of our town,
now rendered much more than usually 80
by breaking up railroads and the washing
away Of the bridges on our county roads,
and the short notice which the country lad
of the time Of the funeral.
Gen. B. T. johnson was in command of
the soldier guard of honor, aided by Col.
J. K. Edmundson, Col. r. L. Maury,
and Major J. B. Dorman: Capt. j. J.
White, professor in the college, wes chief
marshal.
It was remarked that the different classes
who joined in the procession mingled into
each other, and that among the Boards of
the College and Institute, Faculties, the
students and cadets, the Legislative COM
mittee, the delegations, and even the
clergy, were many who might with equal
propriety have Joined the soldier guard of
honor for they, too, had followed the
standard of Lee in the days that tried mems
souls.
Along the streets the buildings were all
appropriately draped, and crowds gathered
on the corners and in the balconies to see
the procession pass. Not flag foated
above the procession, and nothing was
eeen that looked like an attempt at display.
The old soldiers wore their ordinary citi-
h c1v IL o1I -,
the lapel of their coats, and '"Traveller,"
led by two old soldiers, who had the simple
trappings of mourning.
The Virginia Military Institute was very
beautifully draped, and from its turrets
hung at half mast, and draped in mourn
ing, the flags of all the States of the late
Southern Confederacy.
When the procession reached the Insti-
tute it PASSED the corps of cadets drawn up
arms as the hearse passed. When 1t reach
ed the chapel, where an immense throng
had assembled, the students and cadets.
about $50 strong, marched into the left
door and aisle past the remains, and out
by the right aisle and door to their appro-
pirate place. The family, appropriately
joined by Drs. Barton and Madison, the
attending physicians. and Coils. W. Fl.
Taylor and G. S. VenabIe, members of
O6ue1Al ho0 ctdA OuE1uB bu0 WHES OCCu"
pied seats Immediately in front of the pull
pit, and the clergy, of whom a number
were present, Faculty of the College, and
Faculty of the Institute, had places on the
platform.
The coffin was literally covered with
flowers and evergreens, while the front
of the drapery thrown over il was decora-
ted with crosses of evergreen and immor-
telles.
Rev. DIR. Pendleton, the long intimate
personal friend of Genera Lice, mischief of
artillery during the war, and his pastor
the past five years, read::the beautiful
burial services of the Enisconal Chnrch