Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-06-08

RICHMOND, May 31.-At 3.O5
this morning the funeral train
bearing the remains OF ex- Presi-
dent Davis drew up at the depot
in this city. Thousands of men,
women and children, some of whom
had waited for hours, greeted its
arrival, besides the military escort,
composed OF members of the Lee
and Pickett Camps Confederate
Veterans and the First Virginia
Infantry. The line of march was
taken up, with the Richmond
Light Infantry Blues (who had
gone to Danville with the Gov.
ernor to meet the train) at the
head of the procession, followed by
the First Regiment, and the Lou
isiana, Mississippi, Georgia and
North Carolina veterans as the
escort.
The march from the station to
the Capitol was very impressive.
The wailing notes of the Dead
March on fife and drum, and the
slow, steady, regular tramp Of vet-
erans marching in fours behind
the bier, in the gray dawn, between
the ranks of spectators on either
side of the street, with barred heads,
was exceedingly weird and solemn.
Upon reaching the Capitol build-
ing the military opened ranks at
present arms, while the veterans
marched through with heads un-
covered until the doors Of the build
ing were reached, where a halt
was made and the casket was borne
to the door of the Senate chamber
in the rotunda cf the building and
placed in position under guard OF
Lee Camp,
From daylight till 9 o'clock
hundreds of strangers and city peoa
pie passed through the Capitol and
viewed the casket, which was
almost enveloped in floral tributes
of various designs from the North
and West as we'll as from the
South. Between the hours of 8
and II o'clock about five thousand
public school children passed by
the bier, each dropping flowers as
tribute of affection, until the
huge mass has assumed proportions
equal to several wagon loads.
The North Carolina delegation
is very large. With Gov. Carr
| and staff are Captain j. A. Ramsey,
Capt. r. A. Best, Col. E. Everitt,
Col. Wharton J, Green, Col. A. D.
Stark, Capt. VIM. Smith, Capt. S.
A. Ashe, Col. j. S. Carr, Capt. N.
A. Ramsey, Col, j. E. Brown, Col.
J. M. Odell and DIR. Leath.
At $50 p. m. the body was re-
moved to the caisson drawn by six
white horses caparisoned in black,
and the line of march was taken up
for Hollywood. Houses along the
inc were, almost without excep-
ton, decorated in black and white.
National, State and Confederate
f1ags-the latter predominating-
were either floating to the breeze
or worked in the funeral colors.
The streets along the route, yards
and windows Of dwellings, were
packed with people, Nothing of a
tumultuous or noisy character
marked the day or progress of the
cortege, while the scene was most
imposing one. though the whole
city seemed to be in mourning.
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Immediately after the benedics
tion.t casket was lowered into
the grave. After the bugle signal
came taps, and the infantry fred a
salute, which announced that the
services were over.
The column then moved to Get
tysburg Hill, where the annual
memorial services of the Ladies'
Hollywood Association took place,
which consisted of the decoration
of the graves of 49, 900 Confederate
soldiers, after which prayer was
offered and hymn sung.
The display of veterans was un-
I.doubtedly much greater. than at the
j unveiling of the Lee monument
and fever since the war has &C
many Confederate soldiers beer
;. seen in one body in Richmond
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