Identifier: abrahamlincol2043morg (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln, the boy and the man
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Morgan, James, 1861-1955
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Grosset & Dunlap
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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St. Gaudenss Statue of Lincoln In Lincoln Park, Chicago SORROW OF THE WORLD his body on its way to the grave. Arrangementswere made for the cortege to pass over nearly thesame route which Lincoln had followed on his wayto the capital four years before. At Philadelphia,Liberty Bell was placed at the head of his coffin inIndependence Hall, where, in 1861, he had solemnlydeclared he would rather be assassinated then andthere than surrender the Union. Hundreds of thousands looked upon his face inNew York. A multitude of people from all over theupper part of the Empire State gathered at Albany,and were in waiting at midnight when the body wasplaced in the Capitol. At every little station the people gathered and stoodwith bared heads as the funeral train swept by.Arches were erected over the track of the railroad.Bonfires lit the way by night. The people of the Westassembled in Chicago, to bend in reverence above thebier of the first President they had given to the nation. Springfield, prou

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