and talents as a citizen and soldier had achieved illustrious services,
and whose sudden death has disappointed the expectation of still more
important benefits to his country.

With a view to carry into effect the views of these high officers of
Government in a manner befitting the occasion and honorable to the
militia corps of this District, I request the general and field
officers, the general staff, and the commandants of companies to
assemble at my house to-morrow, Tuesday, April 6, precisely at 10
o'clock, to report the strength and equipment of the several corps of
the militia and to receive final instructions for parade and arrangement
in the military part of the funeral procession.

The commandants of such militia corps from the neighboring States as
desire to unite in the procession are respectfully invited to report to
me as soon as practicable their intention, with a view to arrange them
in due and uniform order as a part of the general military escort.

The detail of these arrangements, to which all the military accessories,
both of the regulars and militia, are expected to conform, will be
published in due time for the information of all.

For the present it is deemed sufficient to say that the whole military
part of the procession, including the regular troops of every arm and
denomination and all the militia corps, whether of this District or
of the States, will be consolidated in one column of escort, whereof
Major-General Macomb, Commander of the Army of the United States,
will take the general command, and Brigadier-General Roger Jones,
Adjutant-General of the Army of the United States, will act as
adjutant-general and officer of the day.