Appropriate funeral honors will be paid to the memory of the late
President and Commander-in-Chief at the headquarters of every military
division and department, at every military port, at the United States
Military Academy, West Point, and at every camp of troops of the United
States in the field.
The Lieutenant-General of the army will give the necessary instructions
for carrying this order into effect.
ELIHU ROOT,
_Secretary of War_.
2. On the day after the receipt of this order at the headquarters of
military commands in the field and at each military station and at the
Military Academy, at West Point, the troops and cadets will be paraded
at 10 o'clock, A.M., and the order read to them, after which all labor
for the day will cease.
THIRTEEN GUNS AT DAWN.
3. At dawn thirteen guns will be fired at each military post, and
afterward at intervals of thirty minutes between the rising and setting
sun a single gun, and at the close of the day the salute of the Union of
forty-five guns.
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