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Title: The assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Funeral rites and ceremonies
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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navy, and foreign ministers hadtaken their positions in a circle, theburial service was read by Rev. P. D.Gurley, and at the conclusion the as-sembly quietly left the building, thebody remaining in charge of the cap-ital police. There were many floraltributes laid around the coffin, andthe rotunda had been tastefullydraped in mourning. The feeling of sorrow was exhib-ited in thousands of ways throughoutthe city. Throngs of visitors visitedthe capitol, where the body lay instate until the morning of the 21stof April, when it was removed to therailroad station, the members of thecabinet, the Illinois delegation and thepallbearers, with senators and offi-cers of the army, accompanying thehearse. The remains of little Willie ILincoln, who died in 1862 and was Iburied in Oak Hill cemetery, were re-moved to the depot and placed in thesame car with the remains of hisfather. The train of eight carsstarted at 10 oclock for Springfield,preceded by a pilot engine.—Sept. 23,1881. . w il I UHT I
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One of the most shocking tragedies e ver to strike the American nation occur-red on April 14, 1865, when John Wilkes Booth, actor and Southern fanatic, shotdown President Lincoln. This rare engraving shows the funerally draped Eastroom of the White House as the body of the martyred president lay in state. L£s- ^ fcs^e Lfe - f ££A/fA LO&Y KE FORT > .. l/k BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY 0? FREMONT A2ID LULLS CGuTT3£S, IOV.A .CHICAGO: Lewis Pub. Co. 1S01 \ pp.452-553sn Jmong the prominent citizens and influential men cf -ills county, Iowa5$ is James S.Criswell, the subject of this sketch, he is &L$0 an honored ^ -> veteran of the Civil -ar, Mr. Criswell was bom in York county, Pennsylvania^ inl337, a son of Robert and Mary (Wise) °riswell, the fomer of whom passed^ his whole life in Y ork County, but the latter died in Columbia,Pennsylvania^j They reared the following children: Henry, who was a soldier in the Civilx War, and is now deceased; Robert ?., who lives at heeling, i/es

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