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 assassination ... During the weeks after Lincoln’s death, as his funeral train made a circuitous journey from Washington, D.C., back to his hometown of Springfield, Illinois ...

The Feb. 16, 1861, visit was while Lincoln was enroute to his first inauguration and while the nation was on the brink of ...

Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1908-1984) Vol. 9, No. 3, Oct., 1916 The Lincoln Funeral Train This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section.

Lincoln's funeral scene in Manhunt reveals ... According to Stanton, Edwin Booth saved Abraham Lincoln's son, Robert Lincoln, from an oncoming train, and thus, Booth has been close with the ...

The tradition, however, was largely altered back in 1865 during the funeral of President Abraham Lincoln. “It was the first time that the President's body was moved by train," Michael Shymanski ...

Pres. Abraham Lincoln’s funeral in 1865. Library ofCongress. Nichols also informed the nation’s armed forces of the succession of Andrew Johnson to the presidency. Nichols served as Chief of ...