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

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to house itwhile not in service. Next it waspermanently side tracked and usedby the Union Pacific division superin-tendents to live in, and after a time itwas converted into an ordinary daycoach for passenger service. Now itsusefulness is outgrown and it is ex-periencing the fate of an anticiuatodwarship. __^^ //• /» ^ Zl. ^ WK I t. \i y fu^AC^^3.V ^V^\^ P LINCOLN CAE DRAPED ■% Vehicle Which Bore His Body Placed on. View at Omaha, ) Omaha, Neb., Feb. 12.—Lincolns blrl;h-.jday was celebrated by .tl\e Union Pa-cific Railroad by closing the entire head-quarters for the day. President Lin-colns administration was especially Iden-tified with the building of the Overlandroute, and the day was observed asmuch as possible over the system. The Lincoln Car, which stands dis-mantled at the old shops, was drapedappropriately and people were given anopportunity to view it. In this car thebpdy of the martyred President was car-ried from Washington to Springfield, 111. COliG^^£R \C^v\\\^\)i.
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THE LINCOLN CAR..A HISTORICAL RELIC. 4 This la the private car In which Abraham Lincoln used to ride when hewas president By contrasting it with some of the wheeled palaces whichare furnished for the use of our chief executive today you get an Idea ofthe progress we have made In this direction In less than half a century.The rebuilding of the shops of the Union Pacific railway at Omaha hasbrought to light this relic of wartimes, arourid which cling the memoriesof the martyr president In 1864 the government built the car to beused by the president It was most made use of In his visits to theArmy of the Potomac. The car was built at the United States militarycarshopa at Alexandri?i, Va. It Is 42 feet long and 8% feet wide and isdivided Into three compartments. It Is Ironclad, armbr being set In be-tween the inner and outer walls, rendering It bullet proof. The car wasused to convey the remains of Mr. Lincoln for Interment at Springfield, 111.At the close of the war the government auctio

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