Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-06-10
GENERAL WALKERS FUNERAL.
Great Demonstration of Respect to Gal
liant Commanders Memory.

lant Commanders Memory.
Lindsay Walker now rests in temporary
vault in Hollywood cemetery. that lovely
city of the dead TO whose sacred soil have
been consigned the bodies of many of Nir-
ginis's most illustrious sons.
The ceremonies incident 20 the funeral
and burial Sunday afternoon were of quite
an imposing character and constituted q
great demonstration of respect 10 the
memory of a gallant commander who
served with distinction during the war be-
tween the States.
TO ESCORT THE EENnINs.
General Walker. as reported in the Dis
patch. died Saturday morning at his pretty
country home near Columbia, and his re-
mains were brought TO Richmond Sunday
afternoon on special train over the James
River division of the Chesapeake and
Ohio railway, which reached here ut 5:l5
7. NJ.
Prior TO the arrival Of the train there as
sembled at the depot at the foot of Eighth
street Companies A and of the First
regiment Virginia volunteers under COM
mand of Lieutenant Colonel A. l.. Philips /;
detachments from the Howit7er Company
and the Howitzer Association, the latter
under command of President Frank d..
Hill; large delegations from Lee and Pick
EFT Camps, Confederate Veterans, and the
Pegram Battalion Association General
Walkers old command), which acted as
guard of honor to the escort.
Major Thomas A. Brander was in charge
OF the escort as chief marshal, assisted by
Majors Percy c. Hawes and William Nj.
Evans.
The column was headed by the drum
corps OF the First Virginia regiment. and
moved up Eighth street to Main aud thence
to the Second Presbyterian Or. Hoge's)
church. where the services were conducted.
AT THE CHURCH.
The scene presented "a the funeral cor
tege entered the sacred editice, followed
b. the active military and veterans. many
of whom had fought under the heroic and
courageous soldier. was both impressive
and affecting. The church was literally
packed. n great portion of the congrega-
tion having remained from the military
service.
DIR. Hoge's remarks were very brief but
feeling and appropriate and more IN the
nature of a beautiful tribute to the bravery
and gallantry of the deceased. The pastor
spoke very quietly and without straighten-
ing up after having offered prayer. He
said he was in full sympathy with the culti-
waited sentiment of the community that
preferred appropriate selections of Scrip
ture, hymns, and prayers TO funeral adj
dresses, and therefore would have but lit
tie to say. He might say great deal about
the dead and more about the living. The
deceased. he declared, was n brave soldier
and an humble follower Of the Cross, and
all that remained to be done was to bear
him 20 the cemetery. where ere long many
of those in the audience would rest beside
l.
representing as II did the greater audience
OF thousands all over the South. was suf-
ficlent testimony to the grateful and ad-
miring regard in which Genefai Walker
was held as patriot soldier and as a
loving, loyal, and faithful soldier of the
Cross.
BURIED UNDERNEATH FLAG.
The veterans did not go any further than
the church, but the infantry, HowltZer de-
tachment. and Pegram's battalion escorted
the remains TO Hollywood and they were
placed in Laube's vault. where thev will
remain until the family secures suitable
section in which TO have them inferred.
A Confederate battle-tiag, one OF those
carried in the procession on the day that
the Lee statue was unveiled, was laid over
the coffin when il was deposited Ia the
vault.
The prayer at the grave was tender, full
of sympathy for the bereaved. and of sup
plication for the former comrades-in-arms
and friends of the departed.
Salutes were iired both by the Howitzers
and the infantry. and as the procession left
the grounds taps" were sounded by MIR.
J.. l.. Lynch. the HowItzers' bugler.
The attendance at the cemetery as at the
church vas quite large.
THE PALL-BEABERs.
The following were the pall-bearers:
Honorary: Messrs. W. r. Quarles. z. W.
Pickerell, John X. Cooke, L. L. ID. Myers,
VI. Pulliam, DR.. Lewis Wheat, John Purcell,
and Mr. Cowherd, of Columbia.
Active pall-bearers, from Pegram Bat
TALON Association: Messrs. l.. $. Ferney-
hough, l.. +. Chesley, Charles =. Young,
Thomas Byrne, NJ. L. Rider, ID. $. Redford.
ID. 5. Gates, Il. T. lofty, Valentine Brown.
and j. G. Goolsby.
General Walkers widow. all of his sons,
and all of his daughters except two were
present. and quite a number of friends
came down on the train with the body.
There were great many flowers, some of
them very handsome designs, which were
borne by the pall-bearers. None of them
were placed on the coffin.
The arrangements for the funeral were
made by MAJOR Brander and Captain Elicit,
and they were in accordance with the ex-
pressed wishes of General Walker, who o
few weeks before his death said that he
wanted military burial. IL was his desire
that the coffin should be borne on cais-
son. but one could not DO obtained for the
occasion.
Death of Mr. Frdmapn Hoffman