Abraham Lincoln : his great funeral cortege, from Washington City to Springfield, Illinois : with a history and description of the National Lincoln Monument . REAT FUNERAL CORTEGE, porarv vault also, and it then contained the bodies ofthe father and two sons, Eddie and AVillie. Edwardwas named for Col. E. D. Baker—who was killed atBalls Bluif—between whom and Mr. Lincoln thewarmest friendship always existed. I must digresshere, to say that I have been informed by one whoknoAVS, that in one of the finest cemeteries of SanFrancisco, the grave of that pure and eloquent states-man and brave soldie
Abraham Lincoln : his great funeral cortege, from Washington City to Springfield, Illinois : with a history and description of the National Lincoln Monument . REAT FUNERAL CORTEGE, porarv vault also, and it then contained the bodies ofthe father and two sons, Eddie and AVillie. Edwardwas named for Col. E. D. Baker—who was killed atBalls Bluif—between whom and Mr. Lincoln thewarmest friendship always existed. I must digresshere, to say that I have been informed by one whoknoAVS, that in one of the finest cemeteries of SanFrancisco, the grave of that pure and eloquent states-man and brave soldier, is the only one that is there no lover of free institutions, and admirer ofgenius in that city, who will see that the stain is re-moved ? Figure Xo. 3 was engraved from a photograph ofthe temporary vault. It stood on the brow of thehill, about fifty yards northeast of the monument. Itwas removed late in the autumn of 1871, and the sitewhere it stood graded down about fifteen feet. Early in 1868, the Association advertised a ^Noticeto Artists, offering §1000 for the best design for amonument, with the usual conditions, and named the. (Fig. 8.) TEiirORAllY VAULT AT OAK lilDGE. AND THE XATIOXAL LINCOLN MONUMENT. 137 first of September as the day for tlie designs, by thirty-one artists—six of themsendino; two eacli—were received and placed on exhi-bition in the Senate Ceamber. They came from the following States: Illinois—Chicago, John Wesley Hooper, Henry L. Gay, , Cochrane & Pi(|nenard, one each, and fromL. W. Volk, two; Mattoon, J. E. Humuiell, one;Bloomington, J. R. & J. S. Haldeman, one; Quincy,C. G. Valk, two ; Springfield, Joseph Baum and E. , one each, making a total of twelve. Wisconsin—Milwaukee, X. Merrill, two. Iowa—Jefferson, HenryGoodman, one. Indiana—Logansport, AMUiam Em-mett, and Indianapolis, J. H. Vrydagh, one —Toledo, W. H. Macher, one, and Cincinnati,Thomas D. Jones, two. Massa
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