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Title: The assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Funeral rites and ceremonies Railroad trains Railroads
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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builder ofthe car with an actual pass to ride the funeral train. Another collectorallowed us to borrow a tassel from the private car bunting. Were hopingto collect enough information to make a small, but very good monograph onthe train. Im writing to many Civil War Roundtable groups to continue our search forsome specific items as given in the accompanying list. Wed also like to find reenactment honor guards who might be interested inworking with us at the twelve cities where the exhibit will stop.Interestingly President Lincolns guards were awarded the CongressionalMedal of Honor, only to have them rescinded by Congress in 1916. We willprimarily be stopping in major shopping malls and refurbished railroadstations during a five day stay in each city. Were also looking for local historical societies to join us in sharing eachcitys Lincoln history. Thank you in advance for any help with the IBC Lincoln Train. < ours/ Wayne Wesolowski,PhDProfessor and DirectorIBC Lincoln Train Project
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**& i.-k3> ■ \ The Lincoln train is coming... WANTED: INFORMATIONABRAHAM LINCOLNS FUNERAL TRAIN First person accounts* diaries, songs* and especially photos o-f people who worked on therailroads or were trackside as the train passed. Just -family stories about ancestorswould be use-Ful. Unpublished or little known photos and stories about the train. Local Newspaper accounts about the train trip (We have some of the small towns inIndiana* Ohio and also Chicago). Many cities had cermonies like planting memorial treesas the train passed* some o-f which still stand. Information about the Lamson Family o-f the Toledo* Ohio area whose relative MyronLamson had his picture taken onboard the -funeral car just be-fore it left Washington. In1929 this family still had a glass plate negative of Presidents car which we would liketo borrow to make a photo mural. Information about Frank B. Snow of Peoria* IL and his exposition of the Presidents carat the 1904 Worlds Fair. Information about t

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