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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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train in case of meet-ing with anything on the routecausing delay or detention. The orders were signed by W. F.Reynolds, president of the L. andI. now the Big Four; B. F. Masten,superintendent of the Louisville,New Albany and Chicago, now theMonon, afld R. N. Rice, generalsuperintendent of the MichiganCentral railroads. The former wasa resident of Lafayette at thattime. The record which Mr. Cal-lison prizes very much is a copy ofthe original order for the move-ment of the train, preserved in amuseum in Washington. The train was handled over whacis now the Big Four from Indian-apolis to Lafayette; what is nowthe Monon from Lafayette boMichigan City, thence over theMichigan Central to Chicago.—La-fayette Journal. \j \du :-■,, \v, : w W*4i i. \ ^IK Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc, archive.org/details/assassinationoffunlinc Funeral Train under Escort With a Nations Tribute 5% tts -sf v-. ^r - a,-=mr-n
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m Funeral Train of the Martyred President Leaving WashingtonUnder Escort (From an Old Print.) most continuous procession of mourn-ers attended the remains of the be-loved President. There was no pag-eantry save their -presence. Therewas no tribute but *heir tears. Theybowed before the- bjer of him who hadbeen prophet, priest and king to hispeople, who had struck the shacklesfrom the slave, who bad taught a higher sense of duty to the free man, whohad raised the nation to aloftier con-ception of faith and hope and charity.lew, %> t ** *- « The splendor of the ceremonialswhich aggrandize living royalty as; tuueh as they glorify dead heroism; wass wholly wanting in, the obsequiesI ef Mr. Lincoln. No part was taken$s.y the government except the provi-sion of a suitable military escort.? All4«fiyond was the spontaneous mpve-rcnent of the people. For seventeenhundred miles, through eight greats*»tes of the Union whose populationwas not less tnan 15 million, an. al- ■ - r *i * -.* :Jassassinationoffunlinc

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