GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 72 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General's Office. 
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 Spring- 
field, 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. 
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, U. S. Volunteers. 
Brigadier General J. C. Caldwell, U. S. Volunteers. 
Twenty-five picked men, under a Captain. 
By order of the Secretary of War: 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official: 
Assistant Adjutant General.