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Lincoln's Tomb

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A stereographic photograph of Lincoln's tomb in Oak Ridge, Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois.

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Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-stereo-1s04305

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C.H. Hall . "Lincoln's Tomb". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed April 27, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/1163

Creator

C.H. Hall

Date

May 1, 1865

Dimensions

8 x 17 cm

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Celebration by the Colored People's Educational Monument Association in Memory of Abraham Lincoln

Description

On July 4, 1865--the first Independence Day after Lincoln's assassination--the Colored People's Educational Monument Association held a celebration in Washington, D.C., in commemoration of Lincoln, featuring speeches by prominent individuals such as Elder D.W. Anderson, the pastor of Washington's Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, William Howard Day, Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts, Senator Michael Hahn of Louisiana, and General Edgar Gregory. The speakers reflected on what the past year's events had meant.

Source

Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection, Library of Congress

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Colored People's Educational Monument Association. "Celebration by the Colored People's Educational Monument Association in Memory of Abraham Lincoln". McGill & Witherow. Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed April 27, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/1128

Creator

Colored People's Educational Monument Association

Publisher

McGill & Witherow

Date

July 4, 1865

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"LINCOLN": San Antonio Express

Description

This article, published by the San Antonio Express on March 2, 1867, contains an interview with William Herndon's law partner. Herndon spoke of Lincoln's romantic ventures in his earlier years. Following the interview, a beautiful description of the grave of Lincoln is provided.

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LINCOLN

A special correspondent of the New York Tribune, writing from Springfield, Ill., relates the following episode in the life of Mr. Lincoln. Mr. Herndon was Mr. Lincoln's law partner. The correspondent says:

"The tenderness of Mr. Lincoln nature romance in early manhood, and as of this Mr. Herndon had spoken in public, I asked particularly about it.

At Sangamon, Illinois, a pretty and high-spirited girl, without fortune, made havoc in many hearts and Mr. Lincoln constituted one of three earnest suitors who wanted her in marriage. She preferred the address of a young merchant of the town, and gave the other two their conge. Her affianced soon afterwards went East to buy goods, but as he returned was taken with brain fever in some wayside town, and lay raving for three months, unknown by name or residence to his entertainers. A rumor started that he had run away to avoid marrying his lady, and waiting some time in vain to hear from him, she received anew the attentions of Mr. Lincoln. About the time when they passed from courtesy to tenderness, and marriage between them was more than hinted at, the sick man returned like a ghost, gauged the condition of affairs, and upbraided the lady with fickleness. She had a delicate sense of honor, and felt keenly the shame of having seemed to trifle with two gentlemen at once; this preyed upon her mind til her body, not very strong, suffered by sympathy, and Mr. Herndon has oral and written testimony that the girl died out of regret at the equivocal position she had unwillingly assumed. The names of all the parties he has given me, but I do not care to print them."

The same writer gives the following beautifully description of the spot where lies all that is mortal of the lamented savior of our country:

"I know of no better illustration of the difference between the real life and the renown of Mr. Lincoln than you get by visiting his grave. A horse railroad, two miles long, leads to it, in the cemetery of Oak Ridge. Behind you is his real life, Springfield, a Western market town, set upon the monotonous prairie, half the year noisy with the chatter of politicians, plethoric with lawyers, for all of whom there is less than enough to do, and savoring much of the frost and the frontier; a pretty prairie city, but capitalized so that what the State has not done for the town, and the people expected it to do, make an unfinished desultoryness. – All at once, as you approach the Sangamon river, the scene changes. Stalwart young oaks of natural growth become plentiful. The landscape is plowed with leafy ravines. Bold knowls start up. – A creek goes plashing around the abrupt hills. Shadow, murmur, and surprise succeed the level life of the city. And among all these mysteries, itself the great mystery of our age, the vault of the President caps a hill, a temporary edifice of brick, and the great drive of one of the handsomest cemeteries in the Union winds with the winding brook beneath it:

"The last
As 'twere the cape of a long ridge of hills,"

and all the white tombs martial it; buttonwood, maple and ash trees cluster at its base; here is to be his monument. – About $75,000 have been collected for it up to this time, and it is supposed the State will vote enough to make $200,000 in all. There is no sweeter spot for a tired life to rest in. It would be blasphemy to mar the dead man's grave with any mere prettiness of marble or smartness of bronze. Let the firey, untamed Western genius be of timid chisel here: "Abraham Lincoln" is a good epitaph if plainly lettered. And, after all, will any monument be like the man, for no such one was ever a sculptur's theme before. Canova could get no notion of Mr. Lincoln. An allegory would be unlike him, a shaft too formal, a statue too inexpressive. If the Pacific railroad could be called by his name, that would be better."

[Transcription by Deborah Taylor.]

Source

Newsbank

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San Antonio Express. ""LINCOLN": San Antonio Express". San Antonio Express. Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed April 27, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/1103

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San Antonio Express

Publisher

San Antonio Express

Date

March 2, 1867

Material

newspaper

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A Monument to Mr. Lincoln

Description

This article from the San Antonio Express, published in April of 1867, describes a monument to Abraham Lincoln on display at the Union League Club House. The monument depicts Lincoln with arms outstretched toward a black man rising from a kneeling position to his feet. The sculpture is said to have been created by Mr. Ball, from Boston.

Source

infoweb.newsbank.com

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N/A

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San Antonio Express. "A Monument to Mr. Lincoln". San Antonio Express. Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed April 27, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/1101

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San Antonio Express

Publisher

San Antonio Express

Date

April 17, 1867

Material

newspaper

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Lincoln, in memorium

Description

Chorus for four mixed voices and piano accompaniment. Lyrics dedicated to "Col. Theo. S. Chase. Qr. M. Genl. of Mo. [Quartermaster General of Missouri]." The work opens with a short introduction in the style of a funeral march, followed by a two verses and a refrain. The verse is sung in unison or by a soloist and the refrain is in four vocal parts.

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Verse
Rest chieftain rest, now Columbia is free,
Rest for thy labors are o'er...;
Rest in the silence freemen hath made thee,
Rest on thy own native shore... .
Rest as thy glory floats over the sea,
Rest for thy work is well done;
Rest where archangels wait to receive thee,
Rest on the soil that thou hast won.

Chorus
Breathe a sad requiem ye millions now free,
Saviour of Freedom is waiting for thee.
Breathe a sad requiem ye millions now free,
Saviour of Freedom is waiting for thee.

Verse
Rest noble chieftain, our nation is free,
Rest on Columbia's proud shore.,
Rest while freemen will ever deplore thee
Rest with the brave, now no more...
Rest chieftain rest, soon heaven will wake thee,
Rest where our banner shall wave
Rest where in grace thy shadow reveals thee,
Rest in the land of the brave. [Chorus]

Source

Library of Congress Classification M1640.W

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Public Domain. Suggested credit line: Civil War Sheet Music Collection, Library of Congress, Music Division.

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Woolcott, Francis (composer); Fox, Wm. P. (lyricist). "Lincoln, in memorium". Cincinnati: John Church, Jr., 1865. Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed April 27, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/1025

Creator

Woolcott, Francis (composer); Fox, Wm. P. (lyricist)

Publisher

Cincinnati: John Church, Jr., 1865

Date

1865

Material

Sheet Music

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Lincoln Monument Association of Philadelphia Certificate

Description

This certificate from the Lincoln Monument Association of Philadelphia was issued on July 4, 1865, to John A. Brunner. By 1871, the Lincoln Monument Association raised enough funds to erect a bronze sculpture of President Lincoln in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. The sculpture became one of the first monuments in honor of the President after his assassination.

Source

The Abraham Lincoln Foundation of The Union League of Philadelphia (Object ID: XI.2.006)

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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 Abraham Lincoln Foundation of The Union League of Philadelphia.” Reproduction of this item for publication, broadcast or commercial use requires written permission. For permission, please contact The Abraham Lincoln Foundation.

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Lincoln Monument Association of Philadelphia . "Lincoln Monument Association of Philadelphia Certificate ". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed April 27, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/1011

Creator

Lincoln Monument Association of Philadelphia

Date

July 4, 1865

Material

ink and paper

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"Death of the president"

Description

Article in the Second Edition of the Daily Morning Chronicle announcing the death of President Abraham Lincoln and commenting on the intensity of the nation's mourning.

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN IS DEAD!
If tears had audible language, a shriek would go up from these States which would startle the world from its propriety.
Strong men use the impressive language of women - TEARS. Women bow their heads in the dust. Children sleep troubledly.
Words are at this time weak and vain. Let us all, with heart and voice, say that
"This grave shall have a LIVING MONUMENT!"

Source

Washingtoniana Microfilm Collection

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Daily Morning Chronicle. ""Death of the president"". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed April 27, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/499

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Daily Morning Chronicle

Date

April 15, 1865

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newspaper

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"The Ghost of Abraham Lincoln"

Description

Newspaper clipping discussing the way Republicans and Democrats both tried to use Lincoln's memory to their advantage, as well as how people hold Lincoln's legacy over Andrew Johnson as he tries to survive his presidency.

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Columbia Democrat and Bloosmburg General Adviser. ""The Ghost of Abraham Lincoln" ". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed April 27, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/469

Creator

Columbia Democrat and Bloosmburg General Adviser

Date

August 12, 1865

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Card- Sacred to the Memory of Abraham Lincoln

Description

Card with a photo of Abraham Lincoln and the date and place of his death.

Source

Tucker Collection care of Museum of the Grand Prairie

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Use of this item for research, teaching and private study is permitted with proper citation and attribution to the Museum of the Grand Prairie, Champaign County Forest Preserve District. Reproduction of this item for publication, broadcast, or commercial use requires written permission. For permission please contact Museum of the Grand Prairie, Champaign County Forest Preserve District.

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Unknown. "Card- Sacred to the Memory of Abraham Lincoln". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed April 27, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/423

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Unknown

Date

1865

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Card – Picture of the Lincoln Tomb

Description

Drawing of the National Lincoln Monument (Lincoln Tomb) in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois. Information on the design, cost, and contributors are featured on the card.

Source

Tucker Collection care of Museum of the Grand Prairie

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Use of this item for research, teaching and private study is permitted with proper citation and attribution to the Museum of the Grand Prairie, Champaign County Forest Preserve District. Reproduction of this item for publication, broadcast, or commercial use requires written permission. For permission please contact Museum of the Grand Prairie, Champaign County Forest Preserve District.

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National Lincoln Monument Association. "Card – Picture of the Lincoln Tomb". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed April 27, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/421

Creator

National Lincoln Monument Association

Date

1872