Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1885-11-01
BY WIRE TODAY.
Funeral Ceremonies Over the
Remains of General Nc
CleIlan.
A Quiet and Unpretentious
Affair from beginning
to End.
President Cleveland Designates Mo-
vember goth as Thanks
giving Day.
Reports from Numerous Dakota
Towns Relative to the Capt.
tai Contest.
General McCle,lan,s Funeral,

New York, Nov. AT ten O'Clock this
morning the body of Gen. George B.
Mcclellan was removed from the house
OF w. O. Prime, on East Twenty-thlrd
street, to the Madison square Presby-
terrain church, where the last funeral
services we're performed by the pastor,
Rev. DR.. Chas. III. Parkhurst.
THE SOLEMN PREPARATIONS.
Although the morning broke dark
and gloomy. with occasional bursts of
rain, yet hundreds of people
gathered in the neighborhood of the
church and MIR. Primes house. Squads
OF police officers began to arrive early
and were picced in position to preserve
order. Two hundred and fifty men were
deployed in lines extending from Mr.
Primes house,t to the church, two blocks
away, while other officers guarded the
church door and the passages leading to
them. No one was admitted within the
doors of the Prime mansion
and only the pail bearers
and immediate family were present
when. r%everently and with tender hands,
the black cloth which covered the cas-
ket, upon which rested o sheaf of wheat
and a few immortelles, was lifted and
the casket slowly borne to the street.
On either hand were
II PAIL BEARERS,
Consisting of Gen. Hancock, Gen,
Porter, Gen. w. b. Franklin, Gen. j. E.
Johnston, Gen. Arson G. McCook, Gen.
McMahone, s. L. Barlow, Hon. w. 6.
Kelsey, Col. Ed. H. Wright, Thatcher
W. Adams, w. @. Prime. Hon. A. S.
Hewitt, j. T. Agnew and w. s. Alison.
Behind the pail bearers followed the
family ard the family servants.
THE coRTEGE MOVES.
In this order the cortege left the house
and was met outside by the state COM
mandery of the Loyal Legion OF the
United States and the representatives of
Meagher's Irish brigade, which served
under General Mcclellan. Both these
organizations preceded the body down
Madison avenue, where between
open ranks the funeral cortege
passed into the church and up an aisle
where stood the officiating clergymen.
The church was without decorations or
emblems of mourning except a few
flowers at the altar.
THE SERVICES
were of the simplest description, not &C.
cupying half an hour. sJesus Lover
of my Soul" and Mother Dear Jerusa-
lem," 6wo of the hymns Gen.
Mcclellan best liked, were
sung. and DIR. Parkhurst offered
prayer. DR.. Whitaker read the 18th
chapter of Corinthians. The final
rites also were conducted in the sim
plest manner. When the service was
ended the coffin. was placed on the
shoulders of the undertaken s assistants.
who marched SLOWLY down the aisle
to the door. The congregation remain
ed standing until the pail bearers and
members of the bereaved family had
left the building.
OUTSIDE THE CHURCH
the street was lined with people.
The police maintained good order.
The family, delegations of neighbors
from Orange and the committee of the
Loyal Legion took carriages and were
driven to the Pennsylvania railroad de.
pot, where a special train stood waiting
receive the party. The train steamed
out OF the depot for Trenton where the
burial will take place.
AS the funeral procession moved from
the church to the depot it was received
with respect by the people who hurried
along the sidewalk.
HATS WERE LIFTED
and many O tear fell from the ewes of
veterans who served under the dead
general whose body was on its way to
Its last resting place. The simplicity of
the procession was noticeable. Moth
ing about it gave any indication what
ever of . dead hero. There were no
soldiers in line, no bands of music, no
draped colors. The processlon, so far
as any outward display was concerned
might be that of any well to do citizen.
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