Curious Cbus investigates a viewer's question about a Abraham Lincoln's Funeral Train. On April 15, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated and following his death, his body traveled on a ...
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 see ...
GREENFIELD — Being a bit of a history buff, Charlie Vetters couldn’t pass up the opportunity to commemorate the anniversary of the day President Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train passed through ...
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When the Dead Needed to Travel - Inside America’s Funeral Railways
Long before highways and aircraft, the dead traveled by rail. In the 19th century, overcrowded cities turned to funeral trains to carry coffins and mourners to remote cemeteries, transforming grief ...
Low, leaden clouds overhead that Friday morning 158 years ago this month set a somber tone. A locomotive chugged out of Washington railroad depot at precisely 8 a.m. It took two hours to reach ...
Jerry Mennenga’s rewarding retirement job has ended. After eight years, his frequent trips from his home north of Iowa City to Elgin, Illinois, are over. It was there he helped bring to life a ...
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. As part of ...
Thousands of mourners, subdued by a light rain, gather at Bagg’s Square in Utica as the westbound, nine-car funeral train carrying the remains of the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln pulls to a ...
The Ohio Statehouse was decorated in black in preparation for Lincoln's arrival. April, 1865. On April 15, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Following his death, his body traveled on a ...
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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 Americans attended memorial ...
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