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 ...

Abraham Lincoln’s body was transported via train from Washington, D.C., to Springfield for burial, a 12-day journey of some 1,654 miles. The route essentially retraced the path Lincoln had traveled as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

At Abraham Lincoln’s death, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton declared, “Now he belongs to the ages,” but the meticulous, 150th anniversary funeral procession his hometown presented Saturday proved how ...

One hundred fifty years ago the American Civil War had just ended and our nation was mourning the death of Abraham Lincoln. Events are planned this week in Columbia County to mark the anniversary of ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. | Digital reproductions of documents related to Abraham Lincoln's funeral are being given to a group planning a re-enactment for next year's 150th anniversary of the president's ...

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