D. TOWNSEND, _Adjutant-General_.
SPECIAL ORDER.
NAVY DEPARTMENT, _Washington, August 2, 1875_.
The President of the United States announces the death of ex-President
Andrew Johnson in the following order:
[For order see preceding page.]
In pursuance of the foregoing order, it is hereby directed that the
ensign at each naval station and of each vessel of the United States
Navy in commission be hoisted at half-mast from sunrise to sunset, and
that a gun be fired at intervals of every half hour from sunrise to
sunset at each naval station and on board of flagships and of vessels
acting singly, on Tuesday, the 3d instant, the day of the funeral, where
this order may be received in time, otherwise on the day after its
receipt.
The officers of the Navy and Marine Corps will wear the usual badge of
mourning attached to the sword hilt and on the left arm for the period
of thirty days.
DANIEL AMMEN, _Acting Secretary of the Navy_.
GENERAL ORDERS, No. 97.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
_Washington, November 22, 1875_.
I. The following order announces the decease of Henry Wilson,
Vice-President of the United States:
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, November 22, 1875_.
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