[Troublous Times in Canada by John A. Macdonald]@TWC D-Link bookTroublous Times in Canada CHAPTER VI 51/65
Their Adjutant said that during his experience in the Civil War he had never seen troops extending in such order and steadiness as our men did that morning.
He was under the impression that they were British regulars. PUBLIC FUNERALS FOR THE DEAD. On Tuesday afternoon, June 5th, the bodies of Ensign McEachren, Corporal Defries and Privates Smith, Alderson and Tempest were interred in St, James' Cemetery, Toronto, with full military honors.
It was a public funeral, and one of the most solemn and imposing _corteges_ that ever passed through the streets of Toronto.
The bodies of the five dead heroes were placed upon a catafalque which had been specially prepared to convey the remains to their last resting places, and at 3.50 p.m.
the procession started from the Drill Shed to the Cemetery, preceded by the Band of the 47th Regiment, playing the Dead March.
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