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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (view source)
Revision as of 07:50, November 23, 2009
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==The funeral==
==The funeral==
The death of Lincoln trigged an outpouring of grief that the whole of the country had never seen before. Within an hour of the return of Lincoln’s body to the White House, black cloth, crepe, and ribbons began sprouting from buildings across Washington. “It seemed,” said one citizen, “as if the whole world had lost a dear, personal friend.” 25,000 people would pass by the casket on April 18; churches were filled nation-wide the next day, when funeral services took place. Lincoln and his son Willie, who had died two years before, were placed onboard a special train on the 21st where they would make the long, 1,700-mile trip to [[Springfield, Illinois]], and burial in [[Oak Grove Cemetery]]. Along the way, there would be stops in [[Philadelphia]], in New York, in [[Cleveland]], [[Chicago]], and various other cities, mirroring the trip Lincoln took on his way to Washington for his first inauguration. Each of the them would have their own services. (TL 26, pg. 118-131)
The death of Lincoln trigged an outpouring of grief that the whole of the country had never seen before. Within an hour of the return of Lincoln’s body to the White House, black cloth, crepe, and ribbons began sprouting from buildings across Washington. “It seemed,” said one citizen, “as if the whole world had lost a dear, personal friend.” 25,000 people would pass by the casket on April 18; churches were filled nation-wide the next day, when funeral services took place. Lincoln and his son Willie, who had died two years before, were placed onboard a special train on the 21st where they would make the long, 1,700-mile trip to [[Springfield, Illinois]], and burial in [[Oak Grove Cemetery]]. Along the way, there would be stops in [[Philadelphia]], in New York, in [[Cleveland]], [[Chicago]], and various other cities, mirroring the trip Lincoln took on his way to Washington for his first inauguration. Each of the them would have their own services. (TL 26, pg. 118-131)
The remains of Booth took a different route. His body was wrapped in a saddle blanket and loaded onto a wagon for a trip to the Potomac, where a steamer awaited to take him to the Washington Navy Yard. The day after Lincoln was buried Booth was hoisted to the quarterdeck of USS ''Montawk'', and there, stretched on a plank, it was identified by acquaintances, witnesses, and doctors possitively as that of the actor before being secretly buried within the Old Penitentiary on the Washington Arsenal grounds. [http://home.att.net/~rjnorton/Lincoln83.html]
==The trial==
==The trial==