The nation wanted to see him. Weeks after an assassin gunned down President Abraham Lincoln in a Washington theater, a train pulled his body across a war-pocked United States. The “Lincoln Special” ...

An area commemoration is being planned in conjunction with the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train travelling from Washington, D.C., to Springfield, Ill. To mark the ...

One of the first columns I wrote for the Columbia-Greene Media Newspapers more than 5 years ago was about the Lincoln Funeral Train. After his death on April 15, 1865 Lincoln’s body was placed in a ...

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A 37-star, 8-foot-long American flag that covered Abraham Lincoln's casket on his funeral train hangs on the wall of Keens Steakhouse in New York City, U.S., February 16, 2026. REUTERS/Adam Gray (Adam ...

In the early morning of May 3, 1865, several thousand Bloomington-area residents gathered in the predawn gloom to pay final respects to the martyred president. The funeral train carrying the earthly ...