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Ohio Statehouse Decorated for Lincoln Funeral Photograph

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This photograph shows the Ohio statehouse decorated for President Abraham Lincoln's funeral in April 1865. A sign above the entrance reads, "With Malice to No One, With Charity For All." Lincoln's funeral procession made several such stops on its journey from Washington D.C. to Lincoln's final resting place in Springfield, Illinois. More than 50,000 mourners paid their respects during the six and a half hours that Lincoln's body lay in state in the rotunda of the Ohio capitol.

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http://www.ohiomemory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p267401coll32/id/4108

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Use of this item for research, teaching, and private study is permitted with proper citation and attribution, as Courtesy of the Ohio History Connection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Collection . Reproduction of this item for publication, broadcast, or commercial use requires written permission. For permission, please see this web page.

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anonymous. "Ohio Statehouse Decorated for Lincoln Funeral Photograph". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed December 14, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/275

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anonymous

Date

April 29, 1865

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Catafalque in Ohio Statehouse Rotunda

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Carte de visite of the catafalque (raised platform) on which Abraham Lincoln's casket was placed in the rotunda of the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio, on April 29, 1865. There is a 2-cent tax stamp on the back of the card. On Saturday, April 29, 1865, Lincoln's funeral train arrived in Columbus at 7:30 A.M. Lincoln's casket was taken to the Ohio Statehouse where he laid in state in the rotunda. The Statehouse was draped in black crepe for the occasion. Thousands of visitors came throughout the day to honor the fallen President.

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Ohio History Connection

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Use of this item for research, teaching, and private study is permitted with proper citation and attribution, as Courtesy of the Ohio History Connection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Collection . Reproduction of this item for publication, broadcast, or commercial use requires written permission. For permission, please see this web page

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Witt, M. . "Catafalque in Ohio Statehouse Rotunda". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed December 14, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/271

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Witt, M.

Date

April 29, 1865

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Ohio Statehouse during Lincoln's memorial

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People waiting in line on the grounds of the Ohio Statehouse to pay their respects to President Abraham Lincoln, Columbus, Ohio, April 29, 1865. Lincoln's body began the trip from Washington D. C. back to his hometown of Springfield, Illinois, on April 21, 1865. The funeral train generally followed the route that Lincoln took when he traveled to Washington as President-elect in 1861. On Saturday, April 29, 1865, the train arrived in Columbus at 7:30 A.M. Lincoln's casket was taken to the Ohio Statehouse where he laid in state in the rotunda. The Statehouse was draped in black crepe for the occasion. Thousands of visitors came throughout the day to honor the fallen President.

Source

http://www.ohiomemory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p267401coll32/id/11849

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Use of this item for research, teaching, and private study is permitted with proper citation and attribution, as Courtesy of the Ohio History Connection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Collection . Reproduction of this item for publication, broadcast, or commercial use requires written permission. For permission, please see this web page

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Witt, M. . "Ohio Statehouse during Lincoln's memorial". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed December 14, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/270

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Witt, M.

Date

April 29, 1865

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Abraham Lincoln funeral car

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Carte de visite of the train car that carried the body of Abraham Lincoln from Washington, D.C., to Springfield, Illinois, in April 1865. The funeral train generally followed the route that Lincoln took when he traveled to Washington as President-elect in 1861. On Saturday, April 29, 1865, Lincoln's funeral train arrived in Columbus at 7:30 A.M. Lincoln's casket was taken to the Ohio Statehouse where he laid in state in the rotunda. The Statehouse was draped in black crepe for the occasion. Thousands of visitors came throughout the day to honor the fallen President.

Source

Ohio History Connection

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Use of this item for research, teaching, and private study is permitted with proper citation and attribution, as Courtesy of the Ohio History Connection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Collection . Reproduction of this item for publication, broadcast, or commercial use requires written permission. For permission, please see this web page.

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Baldwin, A. S. . "Abraham Lincoln funeral car". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed December 14, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/266

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Baldwin, A. S.

Date

April 29, 1865

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Savannah Daily Herald

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This is the front page of the Savannah Daily Herald newspaper dedicated to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and shooting of John Wilkes Booth. Articles titles include: "The Assassination", "The Grand Funeral Pageant in New York City…", and "Another Account of the Shooting of Booth".

Source

Georgia Historical Society newspaper collection.

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Use of this item for research, teaching and private study is permitted with proper citation and attribution, as defined here. Reproduction of this item for publication, broadcast or commercial use requires written permission. For permission, please contact the Georgia Historical Society Research Center at library@georgiahistory.com.

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Savannah Daily Herald. "Savannah Daily Herald". S.W. Mason & Co.. Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed December 14, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/258

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Savannah Daily Herald

Publisher

S.W. Mason & Co.

Date

May 6, 1865

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The Sad Rites of Yesterday

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The Cleveland Morning Leader newspaper issued this editorial in its April 29, 1865 edition, the day after Lincoln's funeral train had stopped in the city and the body of the slain President was on display for the citizens of the city and surrounding towns to view the President and pay their respect. The editorial paints a clear picture of the mood of the citizenry of one of the Northern states after losing the man who guided the nation through the trauma of the Civil War. Lincoln had won the Presidency with the strong support of Cleveland and the State of Ohio both in 1860 and again in 1864. Cleveland was the largest city in the old Western Reserve area of Ohio, with strong abolitionist feelings dating back to the ordinances of the old Northwest Territory that prohibited slavery. The new Republican Party was especially strong in Cleveland.

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The Sad Rites of Yesterday

Friday, Feb. 15th, 1861, the newly elected President, Abraham Lincoln, passed through Cleveland, on his way from his modest home in Springfield, Illinois, to assume control of the national government. Friday, April 28th, 1865, his dead body is brought back to us, over the same route which he traversed in his former journey, followed by mourners to the home which he left four years ago. What a chasm lies between two days! What volumes of history are embraced in the years which seperate them! What convulsions, what changes, what growth, what enlightenment have they wrought in the heart of the nation! A most striking illustration is found in the contrast which exists between this funeral procession and the triumphal progress. When Abraham Lincoln first visited Cleveland he was personally a stranger to us. We had known him only briefly and imperfectly, and though the sanctity of the great office to which he had been elected invested him with dignity and interest, he was still looked upon as a party candidate, place in the Presidential chair by a singular succession of chances, and possessing no remarkable ability or attainments. Now his murdered corpse comes back to us, followed by a nation of mourners, and city after city, along the line of the grand funeral procession, join, with a unanimity as remarkable as it is unprecedented, in demonstrations of affection and grief for the dead. After four years of toil and suffering and sacrifice in the cause of the nation, he had earned so fully the confidence and esteem of the entire people that they mourn for him with one accord as for a father murdered. He has fallen in the summit and culmination of his glory. But one thing was wanting to make his memory something hallowed and immortal. That was martyrdom, and the bullet of the assassin has rounded and perfected his career, while apparently leaving it incomplete and blank.

The grand funeral pageant, of whose progress through the East we have read with a sad interest, has passed through Cleveland. In another column we give a full description of the ceremonies of the day. We merely desire in this place to call attention to the general - the universal-display of sympathy with the character of the day. The whole city, aye and the whole people of Northern Ohio, united in this our last and most palpable demonstration of mourning. This fact was legible everywhere, not more in crape-shrouded blocks, the draped and decorated catafalque, and the imposing procession, than in the quiet sadness and solemnity of every face, the good-order and decorum everywhere prevalent, and the unanimous suspension of other pursuits to join more fully in the general mourning. The day will live to the end of life in the memory of the people who witnessed it, and fifty years from now the children of today will tell their grandchildren how they looked upon the dead face of the Good President, and how they saw him borne upon his funeral way amid the tears of sorrowing millions, while the world looked on in reverent awe!

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Permission for personal or research use; publication or reproduction requires written permission from the Western Reserve Historical Society.

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Cleveland Morning Leader. "The Sad Rites of Yesterday". Cleveland Morning Leader. Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed December 14, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/226

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Cleveland Morning Leader

Publisher

Cleveland Morning Leader

Date

April 29, 1865

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The Face of the Dead

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Lincoln was the first President of the United States to be embalmed. His funeral and viewing was done with an open casket, so that in Washington, D.C., and at other stops along the route of the funeral train, citizens could view his body. the funeral train stopped in Cleveland, Ohio on April 28, two weeks after the assassination, where for the first time the casket and catafalque were displayed outdoors. Over 60,000 citizens were reported to have viewed the body during that single day. The next day the Cleveland Morning Leader newspaper reported on the funeral events, including this short article about the countenance of the face of the President. While there are many photographs of the catafalque on display in Cleveland's Public Square, no photographs of Lincoln's body were allowed, so that this direct report provides what we know of how he looked two weeks after his death.

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www.wrhs.org

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Permission for personal or research use; publication or reproduction requires written permission of the Western Reserve Historical Society.

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Cleveland Morning Leader newspaper. "The Face of the Dead". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed December 14, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/225

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Cleveland Morning Leader newspaper

Date

April 28, 1865

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Lincoln's catafalque on Public Square, Cleveland, Ohio with monument statue of Oliver Hazard Perry in foreground April 28, 1865

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View of Lincoln's catafalque on displayed on Public Square in Cleveland, Ohio, on April 28, 1865. Immediately in front of the catafalque is the Perry Monument with the statue of Oliver Hazard Perry, a hero of the War of 1812. Until Lincoln's election and subsequent assassination, Perry was the ultimate American hero for the people of Cleveland, some of whom maybe have witnessed first hand Perry's victory over the British Navy on Lake Erie.

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www.wrhs.org

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Permission for personal or research use; publication or reproduction requires written permission from the Western Reserve Historical Society.

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unknown photographer, likely either Thomas Sweeney or J. M. Greene. "Lincoln's catafalque on Public Square, Cleveland, Ohio with monument statue of Oliver Hazard Perry in foreground April 28, 1865". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed December 14, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/216

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unknown photographer, likely either Thomas Sweeney or J. M. Greene

Date

April 28, 1865

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Mourners on Public Square April 28, 1865 wait to view body of Abraham Lincoln

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Mourners, holding umbrellas, line up in drizzling rain on Cleveland's Public Square on April 28, 1865 to view the open casket of the body of Abraham Lincoln, displayed on an elaborate catafalque. It was estimated that over 60,000 people viewed the body of the slain President that day. The casket had been processed down Euclid Avenue from the Willson Avenue ( East 55th Street) station of the Cleveland and Pittsburgh RR prior to being installed at Public Square.

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unknown photographer, likely Thomas Sweeney or J. M. Greene. "Mourners on Public Square April 28, 1865 wait to view body of Abraham Lincoln". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed December 14, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/215

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unknown photographer, likely Thomas Sweeney or J. M. Greene

Date

April 28, 1865

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Lincoln Catafalque on Cleveland's Public Square

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View of Cleveland Public Square looking west from Superior Avenue, April, 1865. The catafalque for President Lincoln's casket can be seen in the left background, with the statue of Oliver Perry immediately in front of the catafalque. Horse car tracks along Superior Avenue are in right foreground with line of horse cars in right background. Public Square was and remains the ceremonial center of the city of Cleveland. On April 28, 1865 over 60,000 people lined up, surrounding Public Square, to view the body of the assassinated President since the casket was displayed open.

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Western Reserve Historical Society. portrait files, Abraham Lincoln, Obsequies

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Photographer unknown, but likely Thomas Sweeney. "Lincoln Catafalque on Cleveland's Public Square". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed December 14, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/214

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Photographer unknown, but likely Thomas Sweeney

Date

April 27, 1865