On April 15, 1865, President Abraham ... while the car itself that carried Lincoln’s coffin was named the United States. The train’s primary purpose would end up being this funeral procession ...

Abraham Lincoln's funeral train traveled through Ohio, including Champaign County, in late April 1865, making stops at many small towns on its way to Springfield, Illinois.

Lincoln's remains rested in a pagoda-style catafalque, which allowed local mourners to pay their respects in 2 moving lines. A portion of the 29th Ohio National Guard and the Veteran Reserve Corps ...

One hundred sixty years ago this week, the nation was in mourning following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

He also thanked the people hanging flags and bunting on the train car. People who ... Eisenhower’s funeral train was the seventh in U.S. history. Abraham Lincoln’s was the first, in 1865.

Abraham Lincoln’s assassination ... During the weeks after Lincoln’s death, as his funeral train made a circuitous journey from Washington, D.C., back to his hometown of Springfield, Illinois ...

Abraham Lincoln was met with a crowd of thousands when his whistle-stop tour arrived in Columbus, Ohio in 1861. It was during ...

Union Pacific Railroad has unveiled the Abraham Lincoln commemorative locomotive No. 1616, celebrating the pivotal role ...

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It was 150 years ago Tuesday that President Abraham Lincoln was shot to death by ... but that gentleman took the late train of cars for New Jersey.The theatre was densely crowded, and everybody ...

Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia that day to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at a home in ...

Tuesday marked the 160th anniversary of a somber day, as the funeral train taking fallen President Abraham Lincoln from ... the nine-car Lincoln funeral train got to the village of Cable at ...