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” ...

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The Museum of Southern History in Florida is selling the flag, which will be auctioned off by Guernsey’s, along with other Lincoln memorabilia. By James Barron Good morning. Today we’ll look at the ...

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 ...

A rare American flag that draped President Abraham Lincoln’s casket during his 1865 funeral procession has found a new home, at a Manhattan steakhouse. Keens Steakhouse, a 141-year-old Midtown ...

INDIANAPOLIS – Of all the attractions that come through town trying to grab attention, this one stands out for its stillness: It’s a coffin, a replica of Abraham Lincoln’s coffin, supposedly an exact ...

On the 150th anniversary of the Great Emancipator’s assassination, Americans along the route of his funeral train reflect on ...

Tuesday marked the 160th anniversary of a somber day, as the funeral train taking fallen President Abraham Lincoln from Washington, D.C. back to Springfield, Illinois, passed through Champaign County ...