The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-12
Gordon Will be Laid to
Rest Thursday.
he LIES NOW IN STATE
The Body Escorted by State Troops
Leaves Miami This Morning for
sAtIanta. A Proclamation
Calling on GeOrgians to
Honor Dead.
(By the Associated Press J

Miami, Fla, Jan. 11.-Viewed by hun
dreds of visitors and guarded by a de-
tachment of State troops, the body Of
General John 3. Gordon, the Confederate
leader who surrendered to death at his
winter home near Biscagne last Saturday
night, lay in stat all today and tonight
in the Presbyterian church in this city.
The city, the first stage of the jour-
ney to the final resting place OF the
dead chieftain, was reached this morn
ing. when the funeral party, consisting
OF Mrs. Gordon and members OF the Im-
mediate family arrived here from rhe
late home Of the dead General at Bis
cagne, Fla.
Tomorrow the journey will be eegun
to Atlanta, where the last fitting tributes
will be rendered to the zero or the lost
cause OF the Contederacy
The funeral party Will leave Miami
Tuesday morning, at 1850 o'clock, escort.
ed by detachment of Florida State
troops, Who will attend the body of Con-
eIal Gordon to the Georgia State line,
where an escort from the military OF
that State will meet the party.
Jacksonville, Fla, will be reached at
1855 o'clock Tuesday evening and the re-
mains will be transferred to a train for
Atlanta The party will remain in Jae..
sonville only few minutes, reaching
Macon at O'Clock Wednesday morning
and Atlanta at 500 o'clock the same
day.
All today crowds of people from near
by towns passed by the Generals cas-
ket. Intermingling among the throng
were aged and infirm veterans who had
followed Gordon, or who had known his
name so well. Every mark of respect has
been paid the dead chieftain by the peo-
pie of Florida and tributes of praise in
messages of coincidence have been re-
ciyed from all over the South.
Atlanta, Ca, Jan. 11.-Funeral exercises
which will be participated in by distin-
gUished men of the South, will be held
over the remains of General John b.
Gordon in this city at noon next Thurs
day. The exercises, which VIII be of
eulogistic character viii be conducted in
! the House Of Representatives in the State
House, and statesmen, as well as veter-
an followers of the dead chieftain Will
take part.
The body of General Gordon will ar
rive in this city at 500 O'Clock We'd
nesday morning, and with guard sta
toned around it, will lie in state in the
State House for the greater part Of
two days, during which time the men
who followed his flag viii pay their last
| tribute-the body afterward to be laid
away in Oakland cemetery.
| A proclamation was issued by Governor
Terrell today ordering that the day of
| the funeral be observed throughout the
State.
The proclamation of the Governor.
which is an eulogy to General Gordon
as a soldier and citizen, says:
'Tn view Of the sorrow that hangs
heavily upon the people and as o mark
oe respect to the memory OF
| Georgias noble son, it is requested
that the people in the various cities and
towns Of the State assemble between 10
O'Clock and II o'clock M, of Thursday,
the fourteenth day of January, .he hours
set apart for the funeral Services for
the purpose of paying tribute TO tfeir
dead hero, and to this end the mayors
of the different cities and towns, ard
commanders of the respective camps OF
Confederate veterans are appointed COM
mittees in charge Of these memorial cere-
monies
cit is further ordered that guard CT
honor from the fifth regiment Of the Geo;-
gia State troops be stationed around his
remains as they lie in state, the Offices
OF the capitol be closed during the day
set apart for his funeral and tho STATE
flags be displayed at half mast for ten
days"
BY an order issued by General stephen
D Lee, commander in chief Of the United
Confederate Veterans, VINO arrived here
today, General Clement A Evans, COM
manding the Tennessee, viii have charge
of all the arrangements for the funeral
of General Gordon.