From the Richmond Dispatch, 7/25/1861 , p. 2

Carried Home. - The bodies of Colonels Bartow, Johnston, and Gen. Bee, were yesterday escorted from the Capitol to the Petersburg Depot by the State Guard, accompanied by Governor Letcher and other gentlemen. The first battalion of the Third Regiment of North Carolina, under Lieut.-Col. Ray, formed a part of the escort on Tuesday evening from the Central Depot to the Capitol.

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