The only photograph of Abraham Lincoln in death almost never survived. When the assassinated president was laid out in his coffin in the rotunda of New York's City Hall for a viewing attended by ...

Abraham Lincoln’s great-grandchildren, Mary Lincoln Beckwith and Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith; (Bottom-right) A crowd gathers around Lincoln’s coffin as it is moved during construction at the ...

Farragut, the Navy’s first admiral, were among the pallbearers who escorted Pres. Abraham Lincoln’s coffin from the White House to the Capitol Rotunda on April 19, 1865. Though less well known ...

The funeral train carrying the remains of assassinated President Abraham Lincoln passes through the ... including the burial car containing the closed coffin. The Utica Brass Band begins to ...

Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln are mammoth, yet simple to describe: he confronted the secession of the South and the dissolution of the Union with all the political ...

Lincoln had struggled to heal the wounds of war, yet he became one of its last victims, and the war left the country no less divided. Abraham Lincoln grew up on the American frontier. Born in a ...

The only photograph of Abraham Lincoln in death almost never survived. When the assassinated president was laid out in his coffin in the rotunda of New York's City Hall for a viewing attended by ...