All duty except guard and picket suspended since the
assassination of Mr. Lincoln. These are days of mourning. Officers wear crape
on the left arm and on the hilts of swords for thirty days. The funeral takes
place today in Washington. The towns-people have arranged for a funeral parade
and service to be held in the Court House. Our regimental band is engaged to
furnish the music for the procession. On the march a coffin was carried, making
a solemn appearance as the funeral procession marched to the cemetery where the
coffin was buried. The whole thing was in charge of the towns-people. It was a
very strange proceeding in the eyes of down-east Yankees. It was a very solemn
occasion all through, to the burial of the coffin.
SOURCE: Charles H. Lynch, The Civil War Diary,
1862-1865, of Charles H. Lynch 18th Conn. Vol's, p. 149-50
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