The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-24

street that thoroughfare was crowded
and Ninth street was damned for
block above and below the church. Per
feet order was maintained, however,
the marshal and the police handling, the
crowd with little friction.
ORDER OF THE PROCESSION.
The order of the procession was as al
ready printed: The marshal and staff,
mounted. Behind them came General
Alonzo Phillips and staff, including Lieu
tenant Colonel Jo Lane Stern, Captain
Workman and Captain Wingfield Crit
fin, of Company II, Second Virginia reg
iment Immediately following the Cen
eral and staff came Company | and
Company Nj, Second Virginia regiment,
the FORMER commanded by Captain
Shackeford and the latter by First Lieu
tenant Moore. of Company -, Captain
BossieuX commanding the battalion and
Lieutenant Fairlamb, the only other com
missioned officer in the company since
the death of Lieutenant WoOn. being i'll
in the hospital in Florida. Company Nj
of the Third Virginia regiment, under
Captain Masurier. completed Captain
Bossieux's battalion. Behind the COM
panies of the Second and Third regi-
ments were Companies ID. r and G Of
the First, and the Richmond Howitzers.
After the military the procession was
formed in the following order:
II. f. Lee Camp, No. l, Confederate
Veterans, under command of Command
or Laughton, headed by the First rcgi-
ment band: George T.. Pickett Camp,
under command of Colonel Il. l.. Maury:
visiting camps; veterans from soldiers
home; Sons of Veterans; honorary pail
bearers: active pall-bearers; hearse; fam
lily: friends in carriages; Hollywood As
sociation Hollywood Junior Association;
lakewood Association; lakewood Junior
Association; Hebrew Associations; Con-
fedcrate Museum Association: Daughters
of the Confederacy; Lee and Pickett
Camps Ladies' Auxiliaries; private car
rages.
With the band playing the
Dead March in Saul" and the tolling
of bells of many churches, the procession
started towards Hollywood Cemetery,
marching between dense lines of human
ity the entire distance The procession
was nearly a mile in length, though the
carriages were driven two abreast.
Along the drive in the cemetery leading
to the grave. a distance of a half mile,
and all about the grave itself were hun
dreds and thousands of people of AL
classes and conditions.
Company +, Second Virginia regiment,
under Captain Russell, was detailed as
guard TO the approaches to the Davis
square and, prevented the croWding of
the drives and kept the crowd from en-
tering the section. A rome was stretch
ed about the circle in which Mr.. Davis
is inferred and Il detail of police assist
ed the military in preventing the crow.l
from entering.
Inc sun was just sinking behind the
hills when the head of the procession
came in sight along the road that winds
in and out among the trees by the rivers
bank. The military formed at the foot
of the terrace overlooking the Davis cir
Gle, which in turn overlooks the river
and commands n view of the city.
AN UNFADING PICTURE.
There was n scene just as the veterans
turned to take the left hand drive that
will never be forgotten by those who
witnessed it. The chief marshal and
aides had paused in the road fifty yards
from the grave and the same distance
from the head of the procession. The
long line Of veterans. the hearse and the
carriages moving along the woodland
road the military drawn mp in rigid line,
the picturesque gronp of mounted mar
shals in gray, the crowds ON the hillsldes
and as close up to the circle as the guard
would allow them to come, the open
grave the nower-decked mounds in the
square, the broad river moving restlcssly,
the green hills casting the long shadows
of evening, their tops glistening with the
gold of sunset, all these entered into Il
picture of rare beauty and many a man
and woman must have felt it fitting that
the funeral time of the fair Daughter of
the Confederacy should be in an hour so
peaceful and beautiful and that she
should lie down to sleep in IL spot so love-
ly. The hearse was halted at the south
entrance to the circle. The veterans be-
ing drawn up close on all sides
The servicfes at the grave were simple.
but deeply impressive. After the casket
had been placed on the supporters thu
face section was removed for n mament
and Mrs. Davis and her daughter, Mrs.
Hayes, kissed the deceased Mrs. Davis
sat in an arm chair near the grave
during the service and Mrs. Hayes kneIt
by her side The Centenary Methodist
church choir sang 'Sleep Thy Last
Sleep" the committal prayers were read
by DIR. Carmichael. and then the vast
and Borrowing crowd dispersed. .