Identifier: assassinationoffunlinc (find matches)
Title: The assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Funeral rites and ceremonies Railroad trains Railroads
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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Lincolns funeral train, comprising seven cars for the fu-neral party, one for the guard of honor and one for thecoffin, is here shown just outside Philadelphia toward the start of its 13-day, 1,600-mile journey from Washington toSpringfield. Of the original cars, only those bearing thecoffin and the guard reached Springfield. The rest were dis- placed time & again by the 13 railroads which divided theprestige of the trip. With Lincolns body traveled thatof his son Willie who had died at 12 two years before. Iincolns funeral progress was the most extravagant demon-stration of national grief in American history. As thefuneral train puffed slowly by, crowds lined the tracks dayand night. Each black-draped city strained to outdo therest in mourning. It was estimated that 7,000,000 peoplesaw the coffin or hearse, that 1,500,000 filed by the coffin tosee the face still discolored by the effects of the fatal bullet.

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