The following officers of the Navy and Marine Corps 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:
Rear-Admiral Charles Henry Davis, Chief Bureau Navigation.
Captain William Rogers Taylor, United States Navy.
Major Thomas V. Field, United States Marine Corps.
GIDEON WELLES,
_Secretary of the Navy_.