By the President:
T.F. BAYARD,
_Secretary of State_.
II. On the day next succeeding the receipt of this order at each
military post the troops will be paraded at 10 o'clock a.m. and this
order read to them.
The national flag will be displayed at half-mast. At dawn of day
thirteen guns will be fired. Commencing at 12 o'clock m., nineteen
minute guns will be fired, and at the close of the day the national
salute of thirty-eight guns.
The usual badge of mourning will be worn by officers of the Army, and
the colors of the several regiments, of the United States Corps of
Cadets, and of the Battalion of Engineers will be put in mourning for
the period of thirty days.
By order of the Secretary of War:
R.C. DRUM, _Adjutant-General_.
[Footnote 1: Sent to the heads of the Executive Departments, etc.]