. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln . LfNcaN Funeral Car>.^ J-OUVENIR^ \ 42ND National Encampment /. .,.^O0t Carti. 0^0,oO yia#^ ON the 14th of April, 1865, (exactly four yearjthe surrender of Fort Sumter) wlien evelooked hopeful and the war was over, PrTsid-I<incolii was shot and a day later passed awaj, a\d tnation was plunged into mourning. The car illusVaton this card had recentlj been built for the Presiderhis Cabinet. It became his funeral car, and on April 2after most impressive obsequies, this car (bearing thePresidents remains,) with six other cars and the locomo-tive all hea
. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln . LfNcaN Funeral Car>.^ J-OUVENIR^ \ 42ND National Encampment /. .,.^O0t Carti. 0^0,oO yia#^ ON the 14th of April, 1865, (exactly four yearjthe surrender of Fort Sumter) wlien evelooked hopeful and the war was over, PrTsid-I<incolii was shot and a day later passed awaj, a\d tnation was plunged into mourning. The car illusVaton this card had recentlj been built for the Presiderhis Cabinet. It became his funeral car, and on April 2after most impressive obsequies, this car (bearing thePresidents remains,) with six other cars and the locomo-tive all heavily draped with black, slowly moved out ofWashington amid a vast crowd of silent and sad specta-tors. History does not record a more touching spectaclethan tl)e passing of this funeral train throii^h tlie mostpopulous states of the Inion. At everv point along theroute vast throngs stood with uncovered lieads while thetrain passed by. In city a!id country buildings weredraped in mourning and flags drooped at half mast. OnMaySrd the train reached Springfield, 111., and on thefollowing day, ;is a clioru
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