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The funeral car that conveyed the remains of President Lincoln from the Executive Mansion to the Capitol, April 19th 1865

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A photograph of the funeral car which carried Lincoln's body from the White House to Capitol Hill.

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Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-23860

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unknown. "The funeral car that conveyed the remains of President Lincoln from the Executive Mansion to the Capitol, April 19th 1865". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed May 15, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/1143

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unknown

Date

1865

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Arch at Twelfth St., Chicago, President Abraham Lincoln's hearse and young ladies

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In this photograph, many women dressed in white accompany President Lincoln's hearse as it passes beneath ornamental arch at 12th Street in Chicago, Illinois on May 1, 1865.

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Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-19202

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S.M. Fassett. "Arch at Twelfth St., Chicago, President Abraham Lincoln's hearse and young ladies". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed May 15, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/1142

Creator

S.M. Fassett

Date

May 1, 1865

Dimensions

12 1/4 x 14 in.

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Reception of the Remains at Chicago

Description

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.

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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.

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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

Full Title

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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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.

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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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President Abraham Lincoln's Washington, DC Funeral Directions and Notes

Description

This is a letter and invitation to Matias Romero, the minister of the Mexican Republic, to the funeral of President Abraham Lincoln at the White House. It includes the funeral procession, schedule and list of pallbearers.

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REPUBLIC OF MEXICO. 81

No. 3.
Mr. Hunter to Mr. Romero.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
Washington, April 18, 1865.
Sir: I have the honor to enclose a programme of arrangements for the obsequies of the late President. The religious services will take place at the Executive mansion at 12 o'clock to-morrow. Your attendance at half past eleven is invited.
I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, your obedient servant,
W. HUNTER,
Acting Secretary.
Señor MATIAS ROMERO. &c., Washington, D. C.
_________
[Enclosure No. 1.]
Official arrangements at Washington for the funeral solemnities of the late Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, who died at the seat of government on Saturday, the 15th day of April, 1865.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Adjutant General’s Office, Washington, April 17, 1865.
THe following order of arrangements is directed:

ORDER OF THE PROCESSION.

Funeral escort—in column of march.
One regiment of cavalry.
Two batteries of artillery,
Battalion of marines.
Two regiments of infantry.
Commander of escort and staff.
Dismounted officers of marine corps, navy and army, in the order named.
Mounted officers of marine corps, navy army, in the order named.
All military officers to be in uniform, with side-arms.

CIVIC PROCESSION.

Marshal.
Clergy in attendance.
The Surgeon General of the United States army and physicians to to the deceased.

Pall-bearers. HEARSE. Pall-bearers.
Pall-bearers. Pall-bearers.

On the part of the Senate : On the part of the House :
Mr. Foster, of Conecticut, Mr. Dawes, of Massachusetts.
Mr. Morgan, of New York. Mr. Coffroth, of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Johnson, Maryland. Mr. Smith, of Kentucky.
Part ii----6

82 REPUBLIC OF MEXICO.

Mr. Yates of Illinois. Mr. Colfax, of Indiana.
Mr. Wade, of Ohio, Mr. Worthington, of Nevanda.
Mr. Conness, of California. Mr. Washburne, of Illinois.

Army: Navy:
Lieutenant General U. S. Grant Vice-Admiral D. G. Farragut.
Major General H. W. Halleck. Rear-Admiral W. B. Subrick.
Brevet Brigadier General W. A. Nichols. Colonel Jocab Zeilin, marine corps.

Civilians:
O. H. Browning. Thomas Corwin.
George Ashmun. Simon Cameron

Family.
Relatives.
The delegations of the States of Illinois and Kentucky, as mourners.
The President.
The cabinet ministers.
The diplomatic corps.
Ex-Presidents.
The Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court.
The Senate of the United States, preceded by their officers.
Members of the House of Representatives of the United States.
Governors of the several States and Territories.
Legislatures of the several States and Territories.
The federal judiciary and the judiciary of the several States and Territories.
The Assistant Secretaries of State, Treasury, War, Navy, Interior, and the
Assistant Postmaster General, and the Assistant Attorney General.
Officers of the Smithsonian Institution.
The members and officers of the Sanitary and Christian Commissions.
Corporate authorities of Washington, Georgetown, and other cities.
Delegations of the several States.
The reverend the clergy of the various denominations.
The clerks and employés of the several departments and bureaus, preceded by
The heads of such bureaus and their respective chief clerks.
Citizens and strangers.

The troops designated to form the escort will assemble in the avenue, north of the President’s House, and form line precisely at 11 o'clock a. m., on Wednesday, the 19th instant, with the left resting on Fifteenth street. The procession will move precisely at 2 o’clock p. m., on the conclusion of the religious services at the Executive Mansion, (appointed to commence at 12 o’clock, meridian,) when minute-guns will be fired by detachments of artillery stationed near St. John’s Church, the City Hall, and at the Capitol. At the same hour the bells of the several churches in Washington, Georgetown, and Alexandria will be tolled.
At sunrise on Wednesday, the 19th instant, a federal salute will be fired from the military stations in the vicinity of Washington, minute-guns between the house of 12 and 3 o’clock, and a national salute at the setting of the sun.
The usual badge of mourning will be worn on the left arm and on the hilt of the sword.
By order of the secretary of War:
W. A. NICHOLS,
Assistant Adjutant General




[Transcription by: Grace C., Dr. Susan Corbesero’s Class, Ellis School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]

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Google Books

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William Hunter. "President Abraham Lincoln's Washington, DC Funeral Directions and Notes ". Government Printing Office. Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed May 15, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/1126

Creator

William Hunter

Publisher

Government Printing Office

Date

April 18, 1865