Memoirs of John Adams Dix (Volume 2) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: XIII. To recount the honors paid to the dead is sometimes a duty, by way of expressing the thanks of the surviving relatives for the sympathy and affectionate interest disclosed in those sad tributes. It was eminently so in the case of our afflicted house; the wish to say how deeply we were touched, how profoundly moved, by the loving and tender words written or spoken at that time, dictates this acknowledgment of a part of them. First to reach our home was a personal despatch from the President of the United States, sending a message of condolence from himself and Mrs. Hayes; next came a similar communication from the Secretary of State. On the day following his decease the death of General Dix was announced at a meeting of the Cabinet, and the following orders were issued the same afternoon: Executive Mansion, April 22,1879. The President, in making public announcement of the death of Mnjor-gencral John A. Dix, which occurred during the last night, in the city of New York, desires to commend to the attention of the people of the country the great public services through a long and eventful life of this eminent citizen, and the patriotic record of his military service, both in his early youth and at an advanced age. Appropriate honors will be paid to his memory under the direction of the War Department and of the Treasury Department, of which he was at an important period the head, and it is recommended to his fellow-citizens to participate in the general mark of respect to his worth aa a private citizen, and to his eminent services as a Senator of the United States, Minister to France, and Governor of the State of New York. RUTIIEHFORD B. IlATES. Ilcad-quarters of the Army, Adjutant-general's Office, Washington, April 22,1879. General Order No...