After a few years of martyrdom, the coffin was removed from the tomb and opened
After the April 14, 1865 assassination of Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, a three-week series of events mourned his death and memorialized his life. Funeral services and lyings in state were held in Washington, D.C., and then in additional cities as a funeral train transported his remains for burial in his hometown of Springfield, Illinois. Lincoln’s eldest son Robert Todd rode the train to Baltimore and… Read More »