_Washington, April 20, 1865_.
The following general officers and guard of honor will accompany the
remains of the late President from the city of Washington to Springfield,
the capital of the State of Illinois, and continue with them until they are
consigned to their final resting place:
Brevet Brigadier-General E.D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant-General,
to represent the Secretary of War.
Brevet Brigadier-General Charles Thomas, Assistant
Quartermaster-General.[17]
[Footnote 17: Brevet Brigadier-General James A. Ekin, Quartermaster's
Department, United States Army, substituted.]
Brigadier-General A.B. Eaton, Commissary-General of Subsistence.
Brevet Major-General J.G. Barnard, Lieutenant-Colonel of Engineers.
Brigadier-General G.D. Ramsay, Ordnance Department.
Brigadier-General A.P. Howe, Chief of Artillery.
Brevet Brigadier-General D.C. McCallum, Superintendent Military
Railroads.
Major-General D. Hunter, United States Volunteers.
Brigadier-General J.C. Caldwell, United States Volunteers.
Twenty-five picked men, under a captain.
By order of the Secretary of War: