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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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February, 1930 313 A Query About President Lincolns Funeral Train Can any of the older Pullman people or ourrailroad friends, help illumine a question aboutthe funeral train of President Abraham Lincoln? Mr. J. E. Hill, President of the Nashville,Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway, heard that alocomotive of his company named the Nashvillehauled the train on part of its journey fromWashington to Spring-field, 111. Mr. Hill appealed own a locomotive named Nashville, but thatthis seems to have been a switching locomotive,perhaps dismantled in 1864 or 1865. Some loco-motives of the N., C. & St. L. were taken northlate in the war; and the E. & O. records showthat a different locomotive handled the train overeach division of road. The route was Washing-ton, Baltimore, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, New
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-•■ .;_ ... ■ . The Lincoln Funeral Train on the Lake Front, Chicago to the Pullman company for information, and in-vestigation has included the companys archivesand the Lincolniana of the Chicago public library,Chicago Historical society, and the Abraham Lin-coln association of Springfield, all without an-swering Mr. Hills question. President Carl Grayof the Union Pacific, and Baltimore & Ohioauthorities on these subjects, were appealed to invain. Meanwhile Mr. Hill, digging into the recordsof his company, became convinced that it did York, Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, Columbus, In-dianapolis, Chicago, and, finally, Springfield, 111.Photographs of the train and of various locomo-tives that hauled it have been found but noneidentifies ^ the Nashville. The historic oldPioneer, first sleeper built in the modern manner,was attached to the train and occupied by mem-bers of the funeral party. The accompanying il-lustration shows the train on the Illinois Centraltracks on the lake

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