The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-19
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS,

next at the house on West Seventy-frst
street, and move promptly at o'clock.
The funeral services proper will be held
in st. Louis. The funerel procession
in this city will be made up as follows:
The regular-army escort willie be under
the command of Colonel Loomis L.
Langdon, of the First Artillery. 1t will
consist of all the infantry battalions
located in the, vicinity of New York
harbor: The artillery will be made up
of the First Artillery United States
Army, Dillenbanks' Light Battery and
two four-gun batteries of the National
Guard. The cavalry will consist of a
troop of regulars and Troop A of the
National Guard. The body will be
borne on a caisson. An escort of
honor from Lafayette Post Grand Army
of the Republic, will surround the
caisson and the rall-bearers, who will
be in carriages. Following them will
come the family and relatives in car
riages. Then the President and Vice
President of the United States, express
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 will follow
the carriages in this order: The
Loyal Legion, Grand Army posts,
corps of cadets, National Guard, S.
N. g., delegations from civic societies,
citizens. The line of march from Des-
brosses street ferry had not been &C.
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 it's arrival there. At the
New Jersey end of the ferry will be
stationed posts of veterans from that
State. 6. A. R. 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.
Schofield, General O. O. Howard, Rear
Admiral D. 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 H. w. Slocum, General Daniel
E. Sickles, General L. L. Dodge, Gen
eral J. M. 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
will 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 9 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 &C
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 casket 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, civilian
Tecumseh Sherman" ana The OaJe o1
his birth and death. While being trans.
ported from here to St. Louis the casket
will be placed in polished oak box
with silver trimmings. The body
is now lying embalmed in the room
where the General died. 1t is covered
with an American flag.
TALMAGE's TRIBUTE.
BROOKLYN, Feb. 16.-At the Academy
of Music Sunday DR.. Talmage spoke as
follows of General Sherman:
'The century has no grander soul to 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 1 ever knew
that I even felt the hearty grip of hi
right hand and had had the friendship OF his
great big heart have no part in the question
which is being agitated as to whether he was
a Catholic or Protestant. I 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
sat with him four hours. He on one side anG
the immortal Henry w. Grady on the other
When In conversation nc expressed to me his
respect for the religion embraced by his wife
and h 8 own faith in God and his confidence ir
the future. Simple as child. brave as a lion
sympathetic as woman, firm as rock. wrath
ful us tempest when aroused against great
wrong lovely as a 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 LAC
p. M
The President sent the following mes.
sage to Congress:
'"ro 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 CT New York at 80 o'clock p
NJ, is an event that will bring sorrow to the
heart Of every patriotic citizen. No living
American was so loved and venerated as he. Tt
look upon his face, to hear his name. was tt
have ones love of country intensified. HI
served his country, not for fame not out OF {
sense OF professional duty, but for love OF the
flag and of the beneficent civil institutions O.
which it was the emblem. He was an idea
soldier and shared to the fullest the esprit
de corps OF the army, but he cherished thu
civil institutions organized under the consti
tuition and was only soldier that these nigh
be perpetuated in undminished usefulnes!
and honor. He was in nothing an imitator
profound student Of military science ant
precedent, he drew from them principle:
and suggestions and SO adapted them to move
conditions that his campaigns will continue tt
b9 the profitable study Of the military profes
sion throughout the world. His genial nature
made him comrade to every soldier OF the
great Union army. No presence was so wei
come and inspiring at the campfire OF
commandery as his. His career was complete
his honors were full. He had received from thu
Government the highest rank known to oul
military establishment and from the people un
stinted gratitude and love. No word OF mine
can add to his fame