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The National Grief

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"The chill that was cast over the public heart on the reception of the news of the death of President Lincoln, has been dissipated by the warm gushing forth of sorrow, and earnest and heartfelt manifestations of deep seated grief. The first feelings of bitter anger and revengeful desires have not been forgotten nor have they been eradicated..."

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The Pantagraph. "The National Grief". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed May 4, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/722

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April 19,1865

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Appropriate Ceremonies

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"Cheney's Grove, April 20th, 1865 - Ed. Pantagraph -- According to previous arrangement the people of this community met on yesterday morning at the residence of Willis Rowe for purpose of forming a funeral procession in token of our respect for the memory of Abraham Lincoln. The procession was formed by Lieut. S. R. Riggs assisted by H. P. Lowry and was as follows: 1st, The Goddess of Liberty draped in mourning, represented by Mrs. S. R. Riggs. 2nd, The national flag at half mast also in mourning. 3d, Thirty-five young ladies on horseback dressed in black. 4th, A company of soldiers in uniform. 5th, Martial music. After these was a large number of persons in carriages, wagons, and on horse back. The procession then proceeded to the new Church in Saybrook, where an eloquent and touching discourse was delivered by Rev. C. G. Bradshaw..."

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The Pantagraph. "Appropriate Ceremonies". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed May 4, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/721

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The Pantagraph

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April 25, 1865

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Rose Whipp Northrup Reminiscence

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SUPERNATURAL VISIT WITH FRIEND?
Mrs. Northrup Recalls Vision of Lincoln at His Old Desk
Trip to Office in Springfield Inspires ‘Sight’
“Mother! Look at that desk. Do you see the long legs resting on the desk, and the tall, dark man lean-ing back in his chair?”
“Why, daughter-I see the desk. That was Abraham Lincoln’s desk. But there are no long legs now resting on the desk, nor any tall man leaning back in the chair.”
Supernatural? A spirit pheno-menon?
“It was so vivid, so startling, that it seemed supernatural to me,” said Mrs. Rose Northrup, aged 91 as she recalled in Mennonite hos-pital Monday this “vision” of Abraham Lincoln, whom she had known as a kind friend many years before.
Revisited Room
The “vision” had been an actuality in the childhood of Rose Whipp, later Mrs. Northrup, for when she was 7 years old she had often seen Lincoln’s long legs on his desk, had seen the tall, dark man leaning back in his chair.
When Rose years later, with her mother, revisited the little room where the famous desk still stood, instantly the specter figure of Lin-coln appeared, so real that she now says it was “supernatural,” and she had difficulty in trying to make her mother “see” what she as a child had so often actually seen.
Mrs. Northrup, who has been a patient, at Mennonite hospital since last September, forgot her in-firmity for the moment-forgot the years which have burdened her frail body, as she talked in animat-ed vigor of the memories which grew from her girlhood friendship with the Lincoln family and chiefly with the great man and afterward martyred President.
Lived in Same Block.
Rose Whipp is a daughter of John W. Whipp of Bloomington, who got a job as assistant state treasurer in the 50’s and had moved his family to Springfield. There the Whipps and the Lin-colns lived in houses in the same block. Mr. Whipp worked in the state house, where Lincoln spent much time. Rose ran in and out of his office as if she were his own child. Lincoln often took Rose on his lap, stroked her blond locks and called her “silverhair.”
But not all memories of Mrs. Northrup connected with Lincoln are pleasant ones. Some were ex-tremely sad-some tragic.
For instance, when the Whipp family had moved back to Bloom-ington and the “tall, dark man” had become President.
Rose returned to her home one morning and found her mother in anguished tears.
Swear Vengeance.
“What’s the matter, mother?” she asked.
“Oh, they have assassinated our dear President,” the mother an-swered.
Then mother and daughter start-ed down the street toward the courthouse. Hundreds of others were streaming in the same direction. At the public square a great crowd had gathered and men were making speeches,
“And many men were cursing and swearing vengeance on the perpetrators of the awful murder of Lincoln,” said Mrs. Northrup. Mother and daughter stood around downtown until the indignation meeting had ended. A picture of that gathering is one of the historic scene of local history.
Clear memory of Past.
Then there was the time, Mrs. Northrup recalls, when she went with her father and uncle to at-tend funeral services for Lincoln at Springfield.
The town was one of vast mourning assemblage. Bands played dirges and familiar hymns. Flags and mourning emblems hung from all the buildings. “Come Ye Discon-solate,” and “Peace, Troubled Soul,” were two of the tunes oftenmost played, Mrs. Northrup recalls.
Mrs. Northrup has a remarkably clear memory of the past; not alone for those memorable days when she played in the office of Lincoln, but for many other years in which Springfield and Bloomington history have enriched her life.
She celebrated her 91st birthday in the hospital last September, when nurses and visiting friends gave her a real party, which she speaks of as one of the happy events of her recent life.

[Transcription by Alicia B., Ford's Theatre Society.]

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The Pantagraph. "Rose Whipp Northrup Reminiscence ". The Pantagraph. Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed May 4, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/720

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The Pantagraph

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The Pantagraph

Date

February 12, 1942

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Ceremonies of the Funeral

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"CEREMONIES OF THE FUNERAL and views of the remains of our late president while lying in state at Springfield" "SPECIAL PASSENGER TRAINS will be run on Wednesday May 3d, and Thursday, May 4th as follows"

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Unknown. "Ceremonies of the Funeral". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed May 4, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/719

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Funeral Car

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The funeral train—or cortege, as it was called—left Washington, D.C. on April 21, taking a circuitous route through 15 states and some 180 towns and cities, including New York, Cleveland, and Indianapolis. With the exception of the president’s car, which carried Lincoln’s body, the others changed frequently as the train moved from one railroad line to the other. The president’s car was built at the Military Railroad System shop in Alexandria, Virginia

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Funeral

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Unknown. "Funeral". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed May 4, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/717

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Unknown

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April 14, 2015

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Funeral Arch in Chicago

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Unknown. "Funeral Arch in Chicago". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed May 4, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/716

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Unknown

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May 1, 1865

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Funeral Arch

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McLean County Museum of History

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Unknown. "Funeral Arch". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed May 4, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/715

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Unknown

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May 1, 1865

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Lincoln Funeral Train- Chicago at Lake Michigan

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One of the best accounts of the Chicago-to-Springfield journey comes from Chicago & Alton brakeman William S. Porter, who was part of conductor George Hewitt’s crew. “As I remember the funeral train,” Porter wrote in 1917, “it consisted of one baggage car, several ordinary coaches and the catafalque car (the one carrying Lincoln’s body), which was the second car from the rear end of the train.”

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McLean County Museum of History

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Unknown. "Lincoln Funeral Train- Chicago at Lake Michigan". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed May 4, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/714

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Unknown

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"Immense Meeting on Sunday -- A Sabbath Well Spent -- 6,000 People Present"

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Pantagraph story about how the news arrived, and the indignation meeting on the courthouse square.

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"We have been told that when our dispatch reached Bloomington the news could not at first be believed. More confirmations soon arrived and the dreadful truth was accepted by all. Almost simultaneously houses and stores were draped in heavy mourning, and the entire community was overwhelmed in grief"

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The Pantagraph. ""Immense Meeting on Sunday -- A Sabbath Well Spent -- 6,000 People Present"". The Pantagraph. Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed May 4, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/713

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The Pantagraph

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The Pantagraph

Date

April 18, 1865