m. and this
order read to them.
The national flag will be displayed at half-mast. At dawn of day
thirteen guns will be fired. Commencing at 12 o'clock m., nineteen
minute guns will be fired, and at the close of the day the national
salute of thirty-eight guns.
The usual badge of mourning will be worn by officers of the Army, and
the colors of the several regiments, of the United States Corps of
Cadets, and of the Battalion of Engineers will be put in mourning for
the period of thirty days.
By order of the Secretary of War:
R.C. DRUM, _Adjutant-General_.
[Footnote 1: Sent to the heads of the Executive Departments, etc.]
SPECIAL ORDER.
NAVY DEPARTMENT, _Washington, November 25, 1885_.
The President of the United States announces the death of Vice-President
Thomas A. Hendricks in the following order:
[For order see preceding page.]
In pursuance of the foregoing order, it is hereby directed that upon the
day following the receipt of this the ensign at each United States naval
station and of each United States naval vessel in commission be hoisted
at half-mast from sunrise to sunset, and that thirteen guns be fired at
sunrise, nineteen minute guns at meridian, and a national salute at
sunset at each United States naval station and on board flagships and
vessels acting singly, at home or abroad.
The officers of the Navy and Marine Corps will wear the usual badge of
mourning for three months.
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