Abraham Lincoln : his great funeral cortege, from Washington City to Springfield, Illinois : with a history and description of the National Lincoln Monument . N. C. North Carolina i S. CSouth Carolina ; Penn. Pennsylvania; Ga. GeorgiaVt. Vermont; Ky. Kentucky; ; OhioLa. Louisiana; Ind. Indiana; Miss. Mississppi; IllsIllinois ; Ala. Alabama; Me. Maine ; Mo. MissouriArk. Arkansas; ]Mich. Michigan; Tex. Texas; FlaFlorida; Iowa; AVis. Wisconsin; Cal. CaliforniaMinn. Minnesota ; On. Oregon ; Kan. Kansas; AV. Virginia ; Xev. Xevada; Xeb. Xebraska; endingat the left of the three
Abraham Lincoln : his great funeral cortege, from Washington City to Springfield, Illinois : with a history and description of the National Lincoln Monument . N. C. North Carolina i S. CSouth Carolina ; Penn. Pennsylvania; Ga. GeorgiaVt. Vermont; Ky. Kentucky; ; OhioLa. Louisiana; Ind. Indiana; Miss. Mississppi; IllsIllinois ; Ala. Alabama; Me. Maine ; Mo. MissouriArk. Arkansas; ]Mich. Michigan; Tex. Texas; FlaFlorida; Iowa; AVis. Wisconsin; Cal. CaliforniaMinn. Minnesota ; On. Oregon ; Kan. Kansas; AV. Virginia ; Xev. Xevada; Xeb. Xebraska; endingat the left of the three blank shields. This cordon of States is twenty-three feet above the AND TJIE NATIONAL LINCOLN MONUMENT. 151 grouiul, seven feet above the Terrace, and tliree feetbelow the top of the pedestals on which the fonrgroups of statuary are to stand, previously describedas representing- the Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, andthe Navy. The names of the States, as above described,and LINCOLN, in raised letters on the front of the pedestal for hisstatue, constitute the whole of the inscriptions on themonument. Figure 8 is a view of one of the fourround llj •; 1 lip If ^—r r- . :^ / I-ll!. ;; ???i:| • 1 (Fig. 8.) ROUND PEDESTAL This is one of the four for the supjiort of the groupsof statuary, and is situated at the southwest corner ofthe monument, showing that ]-)art of it above the Ter-race. The tablets are all of the same size, but thepedestal being round, as it recedes, Missouri, on the 152 THE GEEAT FUNEEAL CORTEGE, riglit, and Illinois, on the left, are apparently dimin-ished in width. The left edge of the tablet—111.—forms the inside of the corner, as it joins the sqnarebase of the obelisk, which brings Mississippi on astraight surface. The bands or links connecting thetablets are well illustrated.
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