It was 161 years ago this week that Abraham Lincoln's funeral train traveled through Indiana for a solemn, statewide vigil ...

Weeks after an assassin gunned down President Abraham Lincoln in a Washington, D.C., theater, a train pulled his body across ...

One hundred fifty years ago the American Civil War had just ended and our nation was mourning the death of Abraham Lincoln. Events are planned this week in Columbia County to mark the anniversary of ...

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 ...

BLOOMINGTON — When the Lincoln funeral train passed through Bloomington at 5 a.m. May 3, 1865, "the depot was handsomely dressed in mourning, and about 5,000 persons were assembled to testify their ...

While I agree that local Northwest Indiana businesses will benefit from housing the Lincoln funeral train here, I firmly believe it should be a national treasure vs. a local sightseeing stop.

We watched the display developing early in the week and when the Lincoln funeral train was ready for VIP visitors Oct. 7, we were there to take pictures and gawk at the fine workmanship of that big ...

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One of two flags that flew from the locomotive of the Lincoln funeral train on the route between Albany and Utica, New York On April 19, 1865, an estimated 25 million Americans attended memorial ...