River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-02-19

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honor from Lafayette Post, Grand Army
of the Republic, win surround the
caisson and the pall-bearers, who will
be in carriages. Following them win
come the family and relatives in car
riages. Then the President and Vice
President of the United States, EXPIRES
ident Hayes, ex-President Cleveland,
delegations from the United States
Senate and House of Representatives,
the Governor of the State of New York
and the mayor of the city. The mill
tary part of the procession win follow
the carriages in this order: The
Loyal Legion, Grand Army posts,
corps of cadets, National Guard, ).
n. e., delegations from civic societies,
citizens. The line of march from Des-
brosses street ferry had not been de-
cided upon yet. The department of
the Grand Army of the Republic will be
under the command Of GEN
eral Floyd Clarkson; the Ma
tional Guards under General
Fitzgerald; the regular escort under
Colonel Landon. General Howard, in
command of the military, designated
General Butterfeld as marshal in
charge of the column. Veterans of the
Seventh Regiment and those from other
regiments will be assigned to positions
at the Desbrosses street ferry to receive
the cortege on its arrival there. At he
New Jersey end of the ferry win be
stationed posts of veterans from that
State. q. A. K. posts at points along
the route who desire to pay honor to
the remains will be notified in season
The bearers will be: General j. NJ
Schotield, General o. o. Howard, Rear
Admiral ID. l.. Braine, Rear Admiral l..
A. Kimberly, General Thomas L. Casey,
General j. C. FELTON,, Prof. H. l.. Ken
drick, General Joseph E. Johnston,
General ii. w. Slocum, General Daniel
E. Sickles, GeR'asal l.. L. Dodge, Gen
eral j. NJ. Corse, General Wager
Swayne, General S. L. Woodford.
General Clarkson expects to have 10, :
900 soldiers in line from New York and
Brooklyn and $500 from New Jersey
Generals Howard and Slocum were
asked by the family to take entire
charge of the funeral and to accompany
the body to St Louis. The interment
viii be in Calvary Cemetery, St Louis,
in the family plot, beside the body of
Mrs. Sherman and those of his two
sons, William, Jr., who died when he
was years old, and Charles, who was
born and who died during the march to
the sea, and whom the General never
saw
The funeral in st. Louis will be
strictly military in character. On ac-
count of the expressed wish of General
Sherman when alive, it was decided not
to comply with the request of President
Harrison that the body be taken to
Washington and there lie in state for a
day. 1t will not lie in state anywhere.
The casl1et is oak covered with black
cloth and lined with white satin. The
handles are plain silver bars, and on
the lid is a plate of plain silver on
which is inscribed the name, William
Tecumseh Sherman and the date of
his birth and death. While being trans
ported from here to st. Louis the casket
viii be placed in a polished oak box
with silver trimmings The body
is now lying embalmed in the room
with an American flag.
TALMAGE's TRIBUTE.
BROOKLYN, Feb I6.-At the Academy
of Music Sunday DR.. Talmage spoke as
follows of General Sherman:
'rhe century has no grander soul 70 surren-
der into the eternities than the one who
just passed away from us. Frank, hon.
est, brilliant gallant, patriotic William T.
Sherman. Thank God that / ever knew
that l even felt the hearty grip OF his
right hand and had had the friendship OF his
great big heart have no part in the question
which is being agitated as 10 whether he was
a Catholic or Protestant heard his profes-
sion OF faith on a memorable occasion and under
peculiar circumstances. In New York at the
New England dinner three years ago I
sat with him four hours. He on one side and
the immortal Henry w. Grady on the other
When in conversation he expressed to me his
respect for the religion embraced by his wife
and $ own faith in God and his confidence In
the future. Simple as child. brave as lion,
sympathetic as woman, firm as rock, wrath
ful as a tempest when aroused against great
wrong lovely as June morning among his
friends.
THE PRESIDENT INFORMS CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, Feb 16.-The news of
General Sherman's death reached Wash
ington in the form Of private dispatch
to the President from Senator Sherman,
which contained the simple words:
General Sherman passed away at 1850
p. m"
The President sent the following mes
sage to Congress:
ITO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENT
ATIvEs The death OF William Tecumseh
Sherman, which took place to-day at his resi-
dence in the city Of New York at 80 o'clock p.
M, is an event that will bring sorrow TO tho
heart of every patriotic citizen. No living
American was so loved and venerated as he. To
look upon his face. to hear his name. was TO
have ones love Of country intensified. He
served his country, not for fame, not out OF
sense OF professional duty Uut for love OF the
flag and OF the beneGcent vii institutions OF
which 1t was the emblem. lie was an ideal
soldier and shared to tho fullest the esprit
de corps of the army but he cherished the
civil institutions organized under the consti
tuition and was only soldier that these might
be perpetuated in unliminished usefulness
and honor He was in nothing an imitator.
a profound student OF military science and
precedent, he drew from them principles
and suggestions and so adapted them to novel
conditions that his campaigns viii continue to
b9 the profitable study OF the military profess
sion throughout the world. His genial nature
great Union army. No presence was so vel
come and inspiring at the campfire or
commandery as his. Ills career was complete;
his honors were full. He had received ON the
Government the highest rank known to our
military establishment and from tue people un-
stinted gratitude and love. No word OF mine
can add TO his fame.
His death has followed in start ing quick
ness that of the Admiral OF tLa Navy,
and il Is a sad and notable incident
that when the department under which
he served shall have put on the
usual emblems OF mourning four of the eight
Executive Departments will be simultaneously
draped in black, and one other has but to-day
removed the Grape from its walls.
BENJAMIN HARRISON"
When the message from the President
announcing the death of General Sher-
man was laid before the Senate Sem
ator Hawley Comm rose and offered
resolutions reciting the profound sor-
row of the Senate at the announcement,
and renewing that body's acknowl-
edgment of the inestimable services
which he rendered to his country in the
day of its extreme peril, lamenting the
great loss which the country has sus-
tanned and deeply sympathizing with his
family in its bereavement. The rcso-
buttons were adoped unanimously, and
the presiding officer was requested to
appoint committee of five Senators to
attend the funeral of General sherman.
The names of the committee were not
announced. Before the resolutions
were adopted, however, eulogistic adj
dresses were made by Senators Morgan