The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-22
FUNERAL OF WINNIE DAVIS.
&C MNrITTEE IN CHARGE ANNOUNCES
PERFECTED ARRANGEMENTS.

at $40 Friday Morning and BE
Escorted to st. PauTs Church Lee
ture Room by Lee and Pickett
Camps-Funeral to Take Place at
$3.50 p. m. Under the Conduct of six
ClerGymen-Active PaII-Bearers
From Lee Camp and Sons of Veter-
ans-DeIeg0tiOns From COnfeder-
ate Camps.
Richmond, Va, Sept. 21.-The details of
the funeral Of Miss Winnie Davis were to-
night given out in the following by the
committee having charge of the arrange
ments:
1t is desired that organizations partci-
pating in the ceremonies will take their
position in line as follows:
Platoon of police.
Military
Lee Camp.
Pickett Camp.
Visiting camps
Veterans from the soldiers home.
Sons of Veterans
Honorary pall-bearers.
Active pall-bearers.
Hearse,
Family.
Friends
Hollywood Association.
Oakwood Association.
Hebrew Association
Confederate Museum
Daughters of Confederacy.
Lee and Pickett Camps Ladies' Auxil-
iary.
Private carriages.
Organizations desiring assignment in line
must apply to the chief marshal by 12 m
Friday. Sept. %.
The remains will arrive in Richmond at
$40 Friday morning at the union depot
and will be met by Lee and Pickett
Camps The body will be escorted to the
lecture room of st. Pauls Church and be
deposited there and remain under a guard
of honor until $3.50 D. M, when 1t will be
borne to the church.
Parties desiring to send flowers will send
them to the lecture room of ST. PauPs
Church. where a committee of ladies from
the Daughters of the Confederacy will re-
ceive and list the same. 1t is especially
requested that no flowers be sent to the
Jefferson Hotel
The funeral will take place at $3.50 D. M.
and be conducted by Rev. DIR. Carmichael,
Bishop Whittle, Bishop Penick, Rev.
Langdon r. Mason, DR. Moses d. Hoge
and DR.. James P. Smith. The entire body
of the church will be reserved for or
ganizations, the public to be only in the
galleries. In concluding the ceremony at
the grave the Centenary Church choir
viii sing hymn. The churches of the
city win toll their bells during the passing
of the procession. Citizens are requested
to display flags at half mast
The active pall-bearers are as follows:
From Lee Camp-T. P. Pollard, James
u. Phillips, D. S. Redford, w L. Royal,
T. w. Sydnor and J. W. Pegram,
From the Sons of Veterans-Edwin P.
Cooke and w. r. Waldron.
Honorary l-Bearers-Gov. ]. Hoge
Tyler, Gen. John B. Gordon, Gen. Fitz-
hugh Lee, Gen. Joseph Wheeler, Hon. J.
Taylor Ellison, Col. W. o. Shelton, Mr..
James Swan, Gen. Dabney H Maury,
Col. William H. Taylor. Judge George
L. Christian, Mr. Virginius Newton, Mr..
Joseph Bryan, Mr.. w. D. Chesterman.
Col Gordon McCabe. Col Walter E.
Grant, Col John Purcell. Gen. Charles J.
Anderson, DR., James B. McCaw, DR.
George Ross, Maj. Robert Stiles, Col.
Archer Anderson, Mr.. Burton NJ Harri-
son, Col E. W. Cutshaw, Gen. Bradley
= JOHilSolli MI. Arthur NJ. 0eUuOfl, zen.
David A. Weisiger, Mr.. e. B. Addison, Mr..
J. H. Dooly, Mr.. Thomas Atkinson. Mr..
7. c. Williams, Mr.. j. N. Boyd, Mr.. E,
Leslie Spence, Jr
The following gentlemen are to act as
aides to the chief marshall: Capt E. Peter
Bosher, S. w. Travers, S. H. Hawes. Judge
George L. Christian, Maj A. w. Gerber.
H. c. Chamblin, Greer H. Baughman.
Col. G. Percy Hawes. Capt. ]. Thompson
Brown Col. p. P. Winston, Judge e. G.
Minor, John T. Hughes.
The committee will meet tomorrow to
make further arrangements
1t is understood that the hearse will be
drawn by white horses, and each horse
will be led by a veteran
Notices are pouring in from Confederate
camps in Virginia and other parts of the
South indicating a purpose to send dele
gates to the funeral, and the procession
promises to be a most imposing one.
All of the Confederate organiza tions i'm
the city have adopted resolutions of re-
spect TO the memory of Miss Davis.
The military feature will be
very striking one. It will con-
sist Of the local military, embracing in
fantry and artillery, and probably the Sec
ond Virginia Regiment, which has Just
arrived here from Jacksonville. Fla. The
officers of the regiment will hold a meet
ing to decide this matter tomorrow morn
ing.
Company H. jeff Davis Rifles. of this
regiment, of Salem are especially deslr-
will probably do So whether the other
companies participate or not.
AGA n ESCORT