Identifier: assassinationoxxx00linc (find matches)
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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before the funeral broughtforth a new rush of la.st minute de-tails for attention. Streetcars werejust one of the new problems, andSecretary of War Stanton receivedthe following communications: Therunning of cars, and the jingle ofbells will contrast strangely with thesolemnity of those sacred hours.Perhaps Harrington should have leftthe cars running, if only to transportthe mourners across Washington. TheBaltimore and Ohio Railroad in-formed him that their employes in-tend to participate in a body at thefuneral obsequies . . .; 39 City Coun-cillors from Brooklyn and Baltimorewanted admission to the East Room,and 24 citizens of Kentucky asked forspace in the carriages of the pro-cession. Rough pencil notes among the pa-pers indicate that Harrington finallymanaged to get the official partici-pants down to 672, including fiv»undertakers; and this being done, hesent the finished order of march offto the publishers. They, in turn,printed a broadside for distributionthroughout Washington.
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Funeral services for President Abraham Lincoln in the East Room of the White House. —Prom an old print in Harper* Weekly. Memorable White House Recollections By John Clagett Proctor The White House, and especially theeast room, where burial services forPresident Franklin Delano Rooseveltwere recently held, has been the sceneof many historic events, both nationaland world-wide. Indeed, in a way it is asilent reminder of all our great wars,except the American Revolution, ofnumerous gala occasions, and, alas, ofmany of our saddest hours as well. The ringing laughter of children andthe enthusiastic gladness of their elders,only too often—sometimes without evena moments warning—have given wayto bereavement and mourning, only toosoon to be forgotten in turn by thethousands who have annually enteredits doors. However, it would seem thatthe outstanding events which have oc-curred here include the more notablemarriages and deaths, and of the latter,the first person recorded as dying here

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