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Reception of the Remains at Chicago

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Civil War artist correspondent, William Waud, depicted Lincoln's funeral car arriving in on May 1, 1865. It was published in Harper's Weekly on May 20, 1865.

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Inscribed below title: The Funeral car passing under the arch. 36 young ladies in white placing wreaths upon the coffin or car, one or the other.

Source

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-22520

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William Waud. "Reception of the Remains at Chicago". Harper's Weekly. Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed May 15, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/1140

Creator

William Waud

Publisher

Harper's Weekly

Date

May 1, 1865

Material

brown paper, pencil, and Chinese white, and black ink wash

Dimensions

4.7 x 48.9 cm

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Lincoln's coffin in the City Hall, Chicago

Description

Civil War artist correspondent, William Waud, depicted Lincoln laying in state in Chicago's City Hall on May 1, 1865. It was published in Harper's Weekly on May 20, 1865.

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Inscribed on decorative banners within image: He left us sustained by our Prayers He returns embalmed in our tears; Liberty's great martyr.

Inscribed on verso: Catafalque in the City Hall, Chicago. The ceiling is draped black & white. The walls draped in folds all black with flag trophies at certain distances. The Catafalque is covered with black cloth & velvet all black with silver fringe & stars. Inside of d[itt]o & the pillars white with the exception of the ceiling inside the canopy which is black with white stars cut out through which the light is admitted to fall on the coffin.

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Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-8107

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William Waud. "Lincoln's coffin in the City Hall, Chicago". Harper's Weekly. Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed May 15, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/1139

Creator

William Waud

Publisher

Harper's Weekly

Date

May 1, 1865

Material

pink-tan paper, pencil, and Chinese white, and black ink wash

Dimensions

25.5 x 34.5 cm

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Lincoln's coffin on view at State House, Springfield, Illinois

Description

Civil War artist correspondent, William Waud, depicted Lincoln laying in state at the Illinois Statehouse in Springfield on May 3, 1865. The image was published in Harper's Weekly on May 27, 1865, as "President Lincoln's Funeral - Catafalque in the City Hall, Springfield, Illinois."

Transcription

Inscribed below image: old. Within image: pink, white.
Inscribed on bunting: The father; Sooner Than Surrender These Principles I Would Be Assassinated on this.

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Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division,LC-DIG-ppmsca-19929

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William Waud. "Lincoln's coffin on view at State House, Springfield, Illinois". Harper's Weekly. Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed May 15, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/1138

Creator

William Waud

Publisher

Harper's Weekly

Date

May 3, 1865

Material

brown paper, pencil, and Chinese white & black ink wash

Dimensions

34.9 x 50 cm

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Building Erected for the reception of the body of the President at Cleveland

Description

In this sketch, William Waud, Civil War artist correspondent, depicted the building erected in Cleveland's Public Square for Lincoln's public reception. Lincoln's Funeral Train stopped in Cleveland on April 28, 1865.

Transcription

Inscribed vertically left margin: House where the first subscription to the "Boston Liberator" was got up.
Inscribed above image: I have made the flags drooping it was raining hard all day, I am afraid if you make them flying it makes the building look too gay.
Inscribed below image: grass; two rows of people filing past coffin.
Inscribed below title: This is the only thing I have seen suitable for a sketch up to Chicago.

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Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-05575

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Wiliam Waud . "Building Erected for the reception of the body of the President at Cleveland". Harper's Weekly, May 20, 1865. Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed May 15, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/1137

Creator

Wiliam Waud

Publisher

Harper's Weekly, May 20, 1865

Date

April 28, 1865

Material

pink-tan paper, pencil, and Chinese white, and black ink wash

Dimensions

25.2 x 35.3 cm

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Lincoln's funeral

Description

Four sketches by Alfred Waud of Lincoln's Funeral at the Springfield Oak Ridge Cemetery on May 4, 1865. Waud worked as an artist correspondent during the Civil War.

Source

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-21176, LC-DIG-ppmsca-21177

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Alfred Rudolph Waud. "Lincoln's funeral". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed May 15, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/1136

Creator

Alfred Rudolph Waud

Date

May 4, 1865

Material

yellow paper and pencil

Dimensions

24.4 x 30.3 cm

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Sketches of details of bunting for Lincoln's funeral

Description

This sketch, by Alfred Waud, depicts architectural details of the Fifth Illinois Statehouse in Springfield while Lincoln was laying in state from May 3-4 1865. Waud worked as an artist correspondent throughout the Civil War.

Source

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-17632

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Alfred Rudolph Waud. "Sketches of details of bunting for Lincoln's funeral". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed May 15, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/1135

Creator

Alfred Rudolph Waud

Date

May 1865

Material

yellow paper, pencil

Dimensions

22.0 x 13.5 cm

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Death of Abraham Lincoln, April 15th 1865

Description

This lithograph depiction of Lincoln's death was created by the Hartford Lithograph company, E.B. & E.C. Kellogg. It shows a large group of men surrounding Lincoln on his deathbed. Each man is identified on the bottom of the print.

Source

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-07755

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E.B. & E.C. Kellogg. " Death of Abraham Lincoln, April 15th 1865". E.B. & E.C. Kellogg. Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed May 15, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/1134

Creator

E.B. & E.C. Kellogg

Publisher

E.B. & E.C. Kellogg

Date

1865

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Funeral obsequies of the late Pres't A. Lincoln, Columbus, O., April 29, 1865

Description

Created by Middleton, Strobridge & Co. Lithograph of Cincinnati, this lithograph depicts the procession of Lincoln's casket to the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus on April 29, 1865.

Source

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-23853

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Middleton, Strobridge & Co.. "Funeral obsequies of the late Pres't A. Lincoln, Columbus, O., April 29, 1865". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed May 15, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/1133

Creator

Middleton, Strobridge & Co.

Date

1865

Dimensions

48 x 58 cm

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Resolution on the "Death of the President" by the General Conference of Seventh Day Adventists Session

Description

This is an excerpt from the Session Minutes of the 1865 General Conference of Seventh-day Adventist, lamenting Lincoln’s death. The Session took place on May 17, 1865 and the minutes were published in the Advent Review and Sabbath Herald in the May 23, 1865 issue. The church’s Secretary was also an earlier editor of the Advent Review and Sabbath Herald and thus pasted the minutes into the Records after they had been published.

Transcription

Third Annual Meeting.
May 17. 1865.

DEATH OF THE PRESIDENT
Whereas, Abraham Lincoln, the noble-minded and upright chief magistrate of this nation, has fallen by the hand of an assassin,
Resolved, That we hereby record our deep distress at the loss of this "prince and great man," 2 Sam. iii, 27-28, who was stricken down by his enemies at the very moment when he was studying how to forgive them all, and that we recognize in this most atrocious crime the true character of the slaveholders' rebellion.

Source

General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists Archives

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General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. "Resolution on the "Death of the President" by the General Conference of Seventh Day Adventists Session ". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed May 15, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/1132

Creator

General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

Date

May 17, 1865

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I.F. Quinby to Ulysses S. Grant

Description

I.F. Quinby, a former U.S. general teaching at the University of Rochester in 1865, wrote to General Ulysses S. Grant, commander of the U.S. Army, expressing sadness over the assassination of Lincoln. He also shows relief for Grant, who was originally supposed to be the Lincolns' guest at Ford's Theatre the night of the assassination.

Transcription

[[?]]Lincolns Assassination Rochester NY
April 17th 1865
General U.S. Grant
My Dear Grant,
While the
whole people are plunged in the
deepest grief at the death of our
wise and most excellent President
there in many led with it a feeling of
thankfulness that you for whom the
same blow was intended, so pro-
[redentially]escaped

Your hopes of the recovery of
Secretary Seward are also realized
The nations soon arise itself
Gone it's almost stupor of grief
and foreboding of other calamities
to forcible in the trace of the will give
place to confidence we the ability
of those at the head of our affairs to
bring alert the peace and hate in all

prosperity whole reserved to well
aroused before the sad event
the people hope news less from you
in the pretense hence you have accomplished
for hence in the name of personal
friendship alone, but in the light of the
nation, where I ask you to take all
wise precautions to guard against
the assassins who may be watching
their oppertunity to strike at your
life.

with the most earnest wishes that
your life may be long passed
to your family and to the nation
I remorse
Sincerely your friend
Quinby

[Transcription by: Joseph Marsteller, Rachel Engl's class, Lehigh University.]

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Library of Congress, Ulysses S. Grant Papers

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Isaac Ferdinand Quinby. "I.F. Quinby to Ulysses S. Grant". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed May 15, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/1127

Creator

Isaac Ferdinand Quinby

Date

April 17, 1865