Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-28
second Regiment, Colonel

eeeond Regiment. Colonel Porter;
Twelfth Regiment, Colonel Jones; the Eleventh
Regiment, Colonel Stewart: twenty ~carriaeea
containing tn. Citizens Committee of ono
guards Of honor; Brigadier-General Fitss
gerald, of the First Brigade and STAFF; Seventh
Regiment, Colonel Glare; Sixtieth Regiment
. se19es sn Ga ths ssRsn s,ghss Hks sxs1i%%sennsti, G Golons1
McAlpin.
This made a line of nearly one and one.half
else and well-timed. so that it passed the cor
ner of Forty-second street, turning into Fifth
avenue, in precisely one hour. 1t was at this
Rain had fallen heavily half an hour before,
but the sky was now clear; flags at half-mast
were blowing out in the fresh breeze that
The slope down Murray AilI Was IS t i n 1sesi
with people, and every window was filled with
versed arms, the colors draped, and the bands
playing dirges that mingled their dolorous
music with the Ginning OF the bells.
AT six O'Clock the funera! car had reached
Waverly, Place, into which IT, turned and
passed to Broadway. Then the road was
down Broadway, from which the street-cars
the City Hall, having moved three and q half
miles in one hour and twenty minutes:
Hath ahe w pSaY was was at c5o onee to carried eyery into the the city 4tg
embaliners and undertakers went to work.
It was found on opening the casket that the
sGaS h over shifted oa the left in ' side. pG T. %as
quickly arranged, however, and the face.
which showed greater progress of deoay in
death, was touched up with color and powder,
and the doors were opened. Sixty Thousand
people were in tho park ut eight pollock, and
ten feet each minute. By sunrise it was ex-
pected that 100000 people would have passed
the coffin.
1t was a weird and impressive scene-the
elerfric fDht2 sbiNinU hriUht1y. tho State and
city flags, with the United States colors, blow.
ing out freely in the cool night wind, and re-
vealing every color in the strong electric
light; the great throng of silent people; the
brilliant windows on newspaper row, and the
vast shadow of the post.ofice building be-
hind.
FROM FORMER FoEs.
NEW YORK, Aug. 8.-In one of the parlors of
the Hoffman House assembled last evening
upward of fifty ex-Confederate soldiers to do
Among the most prominent were Brigadier.
General RID. Lilley, of General Jackson's brig
ade; Colonel WI. Duff, Of the Eighth Missis-
Thirty Fourth Virginia Infantry; Douglas
Walker, of the Hampton Legion; General w.
w: ;L92rinHg, Major W.: Il; Quincy, and Gen,
Provost Marshal Of General Lees army at
Richmond. General Gordon waselected chair
meeting. Resolutions were unanimously
passed paying a high tribute to the noble
qualities of the dead General; setting forth
between the North and South, and testifying
to his magnanimity at Appomattox.
Fort WORTH, Tex. Aug. 6.-The great an
nual reunion of ex-COnfederate soldiers be-
gan here yesterday, and will continue until
tomorrow evening. Fifteen Thousand per.
sons are now present with q promise of a
large increase to-day. Hon John H. Reagan
paid a high. tribute to the memory of General
Grant. The speaker then euloglZed jefferson
Davis.
WASHINGTON, Aug. Ga meeting of ex-
Confederates, presided over by General e. L.
Thomas, of Georgia, was hold in this city last
night. Appropriate resolutions were passed
paying grateful tribute to General Grants
memory. One of them contained the follow
ing:
HE was as generous in victory as he was
great and successful. in war, and it is to the
generosity and magnanimity- of his noble
heart that America is the only land under
Heaven in which a gigantic civil war closed
without any lives being taken in revenge or
any of the conquered being doomed to impris-
Onmnnt and ayilao