SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WLS) -- It appears a re-creation of President Abraham Lincoln's funeral train will not take its voyage after all. Organizers were unable to raise the $250,000 needed for the trip ...

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 ...

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 ...

One hundred sixty years ago this week, the nation was in mourning following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. On April 21, 1865, the president’s body began its journey from the capital to his ...

The funeral train of President Abraham Lincoln rests under a decorative archway at the Monon Station in Michigan City on May 1, 1865. Along with several major cities, Michigan City was one of the ...

A copy of New York Central Railroad timetable for the Lincoln funeral train for April 27, 1865 from Rochester to Buffalo. Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train car, as seen in Chicago, 1865. The train made ...

The story of President Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train will be the topic for the Vernon County Historical Society’s first free public program of 2025. Civil War historian and re-enactor Frederick ...

OWASCO | There were not enough chairs to seat all the people who came to hear Cayuga Community College professor John Lamphere speak about President Abraham Lincoln's funeral train and legacy Saturday ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — 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 ...

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, commander of the Union Army in the Civil War and a future president of the United States, and David G. Farragut, the Navy’s first admiral, were among the pallbearers who ...

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