Seven mile funeral cortège of Genl. Grant in New York Aug. 8, 1885

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General Grant, wife, daughter and Mrs. F.D. Grant.

Gen. U.S. Grant.

Mrs. Julia Dent Grant.

On the piazza.

Mrs. Algeron Sartoris.

Colonel Fred Dent Grant.

Mrs. Col. Fred Grant.

Ulysses S. Grant ; General Ulysses S. Grant.

Dr. J. H. Douglas, of New York.

Look-out house, Mt. McGregor.

Fac-simile of a letter from General Grant to Dr. Douglas, his faithful physician, a short time before his death.

Mt. McGregor, the out-look house, Grant cottage and hotel.

Side view of Drexel Cottage, at Mount McGregor.

Parlor, as it appeared on the day of Gen. Grant's death.

Blank.

The death-bed room.

This room communicated with the death-bed room.

Arrival of the Mt. McGregor funeral train at Saratoga Springs.

Funeral train.

View at Albany, N.Y., looking up State Street.

A nearer view ; of the Steamers Omaha and Powhattan, the two largest Vessels of the North Atlantic Squadron.

Photographs ; taken during the progress of the work in Riverside Park, showing the excavations for, laying the foundations of, building of the front and completing the last resting place of the Illustrious Dead.

The resting-place of General Grant.

Commanding officers of United States troops.

Camp of the 5th U.S. Artillery.

First Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia.

The Walker Light Guards, Co. B., 1st Virginia Regiment.

Major General Jos. W. Plume and staff.

Company A, 1st Regiment, Virginia Troops, Capt. L. J. Bossieux (Richmond Grays).

Procession of citizens entering City Hall.

Another view of the strange effect produced by the electric light while the remains lay in state.

Beginning of the sad ceremonies.

The President and Cabinet of the United States.

Day of the Funeral.

Early morning at Riverside Park.

View of the Seventh New York Regiment.

In sight of the grave.

Riverside Park.

Day of the entombment of General Grant at Riverside Park.

Mutual Life Insurance Company, of New York, excellently draped on the occasion of the funeral, Aug. 8, 1885.

Beginning of the grand pageant.

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The North Atlantic Squadron firing the salute at the close of the funeral ceremonies at the tomb.

Pall-bearers and distinguished citizens in carriages.

The pall-bearers.

Funeral carriages, carrying the most intellectual minds on this continent, following the catafalque to the tomb of General Grant.

Correct portraits of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States -- the power behind the throne.

Long line of carriages containing distinguished people, passing up Fifth Avenue.

A picture of noted men.

Distinguished personages in carriages.

Guard of Honor specially detailed by General Hancock to escort the remains, and who walked immediately in the rear of funeral car.

2d Division N.G.S. New York.

71st National Guards, State of New York, Col. Edward A. McAlpine's [i.e. McAlpin's] fine command.

Head of brigade of United States sailors : passing Grace Church, corner Eleventh Street and Broadway, the entire combination being charge of Commander H.B. Robeson.

Brigade of United States sailors, formed by the sailors taken from the various men-of-war in the Harbor of New York, making a force three thousand strong.

S.S. Burdett, Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, preceding, with his staff, a body of men ten thousand strong.

The New York City Grand Army Posts in advance.

The famous 13th Regiment, Brooklyn, New York.

Old Virginia troops, paying their respects to the great dead Union General. Governor Cameron and Staff, composed on this day of Gen. Ed. Anderson, General Grover, Colonel Green, Colonel Pendleton, Major Carter and Major Dinneen.

Another view on Fifth Avenue, Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Streets, in front of Madison Square.

The solemn march continued up Fifth Avenue.

This view is on Fourteenth Street, between Broadway and University Place, which latter street is where the street-cars have halted.

View of New York City's pet regiment, the New York 7th, commanded by Col. Emmons Clark, and accompanied by their Grand Double Band, up Fifth Avenue.

The catafalque, passing A.T. Stewart's Great Iron Block, corner Tenth Street and Broadway.

The catafalque : near the marble palace of Mrs. A.T. Stewart, on Fifth Avenue.

Fifth Avenue and Fortieth Street, from the top of the forty-foot wall of the reservoir.

A view from the reservoir (Fortieth Street).

The famous Highlanders of New York City, in their national costume, the full highland dress, under the veteran Capt. Joseph Laing, who, with this fighting regiment, rendered four years' service in the Civil War, and returned, leaving half their original organization on the field of the dead.

The North Atlantic Squadron, under command of Rear-Admiral J.E. Jowett, with yards cockbilled, the most significant mode of mourning known to the Navy, and in practice in Europe only upon the death of a member of the Royal Family.

Hudson River view.

Prominent pall-bearers and members of Geo. G. Meade Post, No. 1, G.A.R., of Philadelphia, of which Post General Grant had long been an honored member.

U.S. Grant Post, No. 327, of Brooklyn, in charge of the services at Gen. Grant's tomb, Decoration Day, May 31, 1886.

First floral decoration of the tomb of General Grant.

First floral decoration of the tomb of General Grant.

First floral decoration of the tomb of General Grant.

First floral decoration of the tomb of General Grant.

Interior view of the tomb.

View just in front of Gen. Grant's tomb.

A year after death.

This picture represents the 21st Illinois Regiment in motion, Colonel Grant in command, his first essay in the military career of the Civil War.

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