_Assistant Adjutant-General_.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _May 29, 1866_.
The President with profound sorrow announces to the people of the United
States the death of Winfield Scott, the late Lieutenant-General of the
Army. On the day which may be appointed for his funeral the several
Executive Departments of the Government will be closed.
The heads of the War and Navy Departments will respectively give orders
for paying appropriate honors to the memory of the deceased.