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Funeral services, a procession, and a lying in state were first held in Washington, D.C., then a funeral train transported Lincoln's remains 1,654 miles (2,662 km) through seven states for burial in Springfield, Illinois. Never exceeding 20 mph, the train made several stops in principal cities and state capitals for processions, orations, and ...
The Lincoln Funeral Train, Philadelphia - photograph by Charles L. Philippi (MET, 2005.100.329) Items portrayed in this file depicts. Abraham Lincoln.
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The funeral train carrying the remains of assassinated President Abraham Lincoln passes through the Upper Mohawk Valley region on its 1,700-mile journey from Washington to Springfield, Illinois. ...
Abraham Lincoln's funeral train.. A funeral train carries a coffin or coffins (caskets) to a place of interment by railway.Funeral trains today are often reserved for leaders, national heroes, or government officials, as part of a state funeral, but in the past were sometimes the chief means of transporting coffins and mourners to graveyards.
Lincoln in McClellan's tent after the Battle of Antietam. Alexander Gardner [89] Cropped digital file from original wet collodion glass negative Lincoln with Allan Pinkerton and Major General John A. McClernand at Antietam. [90] The photograph was taken in front of the headquarters tent of the U.S. Secret Service. [91] Alexander Gardner [92]
Lincoln's private car was used for his funeral train in 1865, leaving Washington on April 21, 1865, and arriving in Springfield, Illinois, on May 3. Lincoln's funeral car was destroyed by fire in 1911 shortly after this car (as the Western Pacific coach 895) went into service.
Lincoln County Emergency Management and other agencies are continuing to clean up a train derailment that happened just after 3 p.m. Saturday near Highway 66 and South 3520 Road southwest of Stroud.