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(01-23-2015 10:17 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Yes. I just scanned this order from Scott's book, although your list is not exactly the same.

Just found in J.C. Power's "Abraham Lincoln, His Great Funeral Cortege":


General Order, 72, with reference to the GUARD OF HONOR,

War Department,
Adjutant General's Office,
Washington, April 20, 1865,

The following general officers and Guard of Honor will accompany the remains of the President from the city of Washington to the city of Springfield, the Capital of Illinois, and continue with them until they are consigned to their final resting place:

Brevet Brigadier General E. D. Towuseud, Assistant Adjutant General, to represent the Secretary of War.
Brevet Brigadier General Charles Thomas, Assistant Quartermaster General.
Brigadier General A. B. Eaton, Commissary General of Subsistence.
Brevet Major General J. G. Barnard, Lieutenant Colonel of Engineers.
Brigadier General G. D. Ramsey, Ordnance Department.
Brigadier General A. P. Howe, Chief of Artillery.
Brevet Brigadier General D. C. McCallum, Superintendent of Military Roads.
Major General D. Hunter, U. S. Volunteers.
Brigadier General J. C. Caldwell, U. S. Volunteers.
Twenty-five picked men, under a Captain.

By order of the Secretary of War
Official. E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant General.

The following officers acted with the Guard of Honor, although I [= J.C. Power] have been unable to find the order assigning them to that duty:

Rear Admiral C. H. Davis, U. S. Navy.
Captain W. R. Tavlor, U. S. Navy.
Major T. H. Field, U. S. Marine Corps.

Including them, the Guard of Honor consisted of twelve general officers.

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(01-23-2015 06:09 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Eva, this indeed happened. Here is a list of both state and territorial governors who rode the train:

Richard J. Oglesby, Governor of Illinois
Oliver P. Morton, Governor of Indiana
John Brough, Governor of Ohio
Thomas E. Bramlette, Governor of Kentucky
Thomas Fletcher, Governor of Missouri
James T. Lewis, Governor of Wisconsin
A. I. Boreman, Governor of West Virginia
Henry H. Crapo, Governor of Michigan
A. W. Bradford, Governor of Maryland
Stephen Miller, Governor of Minnesota
Andrew P. Curtin, Governor of Pennsylvania
Ruben H. Fenton, Governor of New York
Joel T. Parker, Governor of New Jersey
A.C. Gibbs, Governor of the Washington Territory
William Wallace, Governor of the Idaho Territory
Newton Edmonds, Governor of the Dakota Territory

(Information from Scott Trostel's Lincoln Funeral Train)

According to J.C. Power in "Abraham Lincoln, His Great Funeral Cortege", there is one Governor more: William M. Stone from Iowa. Power says:

"Governor Stone, of Iowa, and the Hon. Mr. Loughridge,of that State, accompanied the escort the entire journey, and rode in the car occupied by the Illinois Delegation."