Reception-Memorial Service Schedule 2008 2:50 p.m. Bugler Jeff Stockham from the Excelsior Coronet Band will play Assembly to signal parade participants to gather at the north end of the chapel. 3:00 Parade. March from the north end of the chapel to the Superintendent’s House. 123 rd NYVI Civil War Honor Guard (Champlain Rifles) Excelsior Coronet Band Military Sons of Union Veterans 5th NYVI (Duryee’s Zouaves) 123 rd NYVI (Champlain Rifles) 125 th NYVI 2nd Vermont Light Artillery Public Officials Abraham Lincoln and his entourage’ 6th NY Mounted Cavalry 55 th Virginia Confederate Infantry Welcome Reception (at the Superintendent’s House) Welcome Peter Hess, President, Albany Rural Cemetery National Anthem, Star Spangled Banner Gisella Montanez-Case, 77 th NY Regimental Balladeers Chaplain’s Invocation Chaplain Bill Nieffer, 125 th NYVI Introduction of Dignitaries: President and Mrs. Lincoln In the Audience: Mayor George Thacher Congressman Erastus Corning US Senator Ira Harris, Pauline Harris and Clara Harris, Major Henry Rathbone Thurlow Weed Robert Hewson Pruyn John Wilkes Booth Introduce President Lincoln President Lincoln’s Welcome to Albany Excelsior Coronet Band plays Wide Awake Quickstep 77 th NY Regimental Balladeers play Auld Lang Syne ***** Memorial Service Albany and the Civil War Peter Hess “Today is April 26, 1865 and Lincoln is back in Albany” The Battle Hymn of the Republic – Gisella Montanez-Case, 77 th NY Regimental Balladeers Ward Hill Lamon introduces President Lincoln Gettysburg Address – President Lincoln Military Volley Salute 123 rd NYVI Civil War Honor Guard (Champlain Rifles), 125th , 5 th NYVI (Other volleys?) Taps: Bugler Jeff Stockham from the Excelsior Coronet Band .