Abraham Lincoln's funeral added pomp to death and influenced the American funeral industry . By Brian Walsh. Published November 4, 2017 5:58AM (EDT) Abraham Lincoln (Wikimedia)-- Shares. Facebook ...

Before President Abraham Lincoln was laid to rest, a train carried his body on a two-week funeral procession across the Northern U.S. states in 1865. Mourners from New York to Illinois gathered to ...

Abraham Lincoln's funeral train left Washington on April 21, 1865, passing through more than 440 cities, towns, village and burgs before ending in Springfield, Ill. on May 3.

The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln shocked the country 150 years ago this past month. Coming just days after Lee's surrender to Grant, Lincoln's death plunged the nation into new ...

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President Abraham Lincoln visited Cleveland in 1861. His funeral train brought him back to Cleveland in 1865. Cleveland Mayor, George B. Senter played a role in both visits. A train built in ...

Description. This lesson focuses on the funeral of Abraham Lincoln and its impact on American funeral practices. The lesson, which features mortician and author Todd Harra speaking at an event ...

Did coffin flag from Abraham Lincoln's 1865 funeral train wind up hidden away in Florida? What Rhonda Hiser discovered behind a bookcase at the Museum of Southern History in Florida was an 1865 ...

Donald Trump may have crossed a new line but he isn’t the only potty-mouthed president, a tradition that dates all the way ...

LAFAYETTE, Ind. — On Saturday, President Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train, “The Lincoln Special,” will be stopping in Lafayette to celebrate the 160th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address.

Mortician and author Todd Harra discussed the effects of funeral and mourning of President Abraham Lincoln on nationwide practices. The Lincoln Club of Delaware hosted this event.

Lincoln, Abraham Description One of two flags that flew from the locomotive of the Lincoln funeral train on the route between Albany and Utica, New York On April 19, 1865, an estimated 25 million ...