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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

How Abraham Lincoln's Funeral Train Journey Made History. On the 150th anniversary of that trip, historian Adam Goodheart reflects on the rail splitter’s special connection to railroads.

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 ...

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DECATUR — A certain element of Abraham Lincoln's death is seldom heard in classrooms. “The largest public event in U.S. history was Lincoln's funeral,” said James Cornelius, curator of the ...

On Jan. 23, 2022, a TikTok video purported to show a 6-year-old Theodore Roosevelt, better known as Teddy, visible in a distant window in a photograph of Abraham Lincoln’s funeral procession in ...

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.

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 ...