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Card – In Memoriam Good Friday – Passion Week

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An “In Memoriam” poem about Abraham Lincoln, for Good Friday of Passion Week.

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Tucker Collection care of Museum of the Grand Prairie

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Unknown. "Card – In Memoriam Good Friday – Passion Week". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed June 14, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/418

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Unknown

Date

1865

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Card – Columbia Mourning Over Tomb of Lincoln

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Drawing of Columbia and soldiers mourning over the tomb of Abraham Lincoln.

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 – Columbia Mourning Over Tomb of Lincoln". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed June 14, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/417

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Unknown

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1865

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Photograph – Lincoln Funeral Train

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A photo of Lincoln’s Funeral Train as it moved through Chicago, Illinois on its way from Washington, D.C. to Springfield, Illinois.

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. "Photograph – Lincoln Funeral Train ". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed June 14, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/416

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Unknown

Date

May 1, 1865

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Photograph – Home of Lincoln Draped in Black

Description

A picture of Lincoln’s home in Springfield, Illinois, draped for his funeral in Springfield on May 4,1865.

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. "Photograph – Home of Lincoln Draped in Black". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed June 14, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/415

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Unknown

Date

May 4, 1865

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Photograph – Home of Lincoln Draped for his Funeral

Description

A picture of Lincoln’s home in Springfield, Illinois, draped for his funeral in Springfield on May 4,1865.

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. "Photograph – Home of Lincoln Draped for his Funeral". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed June 14, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/414

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Unknown

Date

May 4, 1865

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Journal – Tuesday April 18 1865, Wednesday April 19

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A personal journal. On Wednesday April 19th the author notes that it was the funeral of President Lincoln. They also note that a “deep gloom presides over our whole Country”.

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. "Journal – Tuesday April 18 1865, Wednesday April 19". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed June 14, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/402

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Unknown

Date

April 18, 1865

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Otis Keene Diary, April 16-18, 1865

Description

Manuscript item from “Pioneer Days in Florida,” the Otis Keene diary of 1865, April 16-18, which reported the assassination, the funeral procession, the hunt for Booth, etc. Diary, correspondence. These diaries (1863-1894, 1903-1910) contain Keene's often terse entries about his daily routines from 1863, when he resided in Washington, D.C., through his years as a citizen of Jacksonville, Florida. They include his reaction to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Unfortunately, the diaries do not cover the crucial Florida years of 1898 (Spanish-American War) and 1901 (Great Jacksonville Fire) but remain important as a local chronicle.

Source

University of Florida

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Keene, Otis L., 1830-. "Otis Keene Diary, April 16-18, 1865". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed June 14, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/376

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Keene, Otis L., 1830-

Date

April 16, 1865

Material

Diary

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The Erie Resolutions

Description

Southern Christian Advocate, Macon, Ga., August 31, 1865, p. 3, column 1, the pronouncement of the Methodist Church in the North regarding the death of Lincoln, with the reaction of Southern Methodists.

Source

University of Florida

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Southern Christian advocate. "The Erie Resolutions". J.W. Burke & Co.. Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed June 14, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/374

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Southern Christian advocate

Publisher

J.W. Burke & Co.

Date

August 31, 1865

Material

Newspaper

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Otis Keene Diary, April 15, 1865

Description

Manuscript item from “Pioneer Days in Florida,” the Otis Keene diary of 1865, April 15 to April 27, which reported the assassination, the funeral procession, the hunt for Booth, etc. Diary, correspondence. These diaries (1863-1894, 1903-1910) contain Keene's often terse entries about his daily routines from 1863, when he resided in Washington, D.C., through his years as a citizen of Jacksonville, Florida. They include his reaction to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Unfortunately, the diaries do not cover the crucial Florida years of 1898 (Spanish-American War) and 1901 (Great Jacksonville Fire) but remain important as a local chronicle.

Source

University of Florida

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This item is presumed to be in the public domain. The University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries respect the intellectual property rights of others and do not claim any copyright interest in this item. Users of this work have responsibility for determining copyright status prior to reusing, publishing or reproducing this item for purposes other than what is allowed by fair use or other copyright exemptions. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions may require permission of the copyright holder. The Smathers Libraries would like to learn more about this item and invite individuals or organizations to contact Digital Services (UFDC@uflib.ufl.edu) with any additional information they can provide.

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Keene, Otis L., 1830-. "Otis Keene Diary, April 15, 1865". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed June 14, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/373

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Keene, Otis L., 1830-

Date

April 15, 1865

Material

Diary

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Johannes Oertel Diary

Description

Johannes Oertel, a minister who later became an artist, wrote about his feelings on the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln five days before.

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Wednesday, April 19, 1865

Most memorable day! A day of mourning and lamentation! A continent in tears! The Nation weeping, and her foes dismayed and fleeing in disguise and terror! This cursed rebellion has culminated its gigantic atrocities in the foul murder of our great, good, beloved President. The hand of a vile assassin extinguished his precious life last Friday evening, and today over twenty millions of people mourn after his hearse, and swear over his grave by High Heaven a solemn, determined oath, that the black wickedness, which has for four bloody years made our beautiful country old in deeds of carnage and violence, shall be utterly wiped out of existence, and evenhanded Justice have her uninterrupted work with the leaders, who caused such widespread misery.

As the dreadful news of the assassination of Mr. Abr. Lincoln flashed over the thousands of miles of this continent, the nation received a paralysis shock indeed. A feeling of horror and deep gloom spread over the land, and men were struck dumb with awe. All fealt the fearful calamity and felt the national bereavement. We have lost a Father! A great man has fallen. For four years, with a far-seeing, calm and clear mind, steady and unwavering in high principle and sterling integrity, with the purest patriotism and self-sacrifice, an all-embracing love and tender care, patient and untouched by censure or calumny, looking with devout faith and childlike trust to the end, as a merciful Providence would surely protect the right and bring it to victory, he has guided his distressed county in her greatest dangers and perils, has firmly established the principle of universal freedom, subdued the power of her enemies, and raised again, our proud banner upon the ruined walls of that very fortress whence treason struck it down just four years before, and now that the future rose up before his gratified vision, radiant with glory and happiness and strength, and his herkulean labors found a sweet reward, malicious hatred cut him off in the height of his usefulness. The hellish spirit of slavery and treason has done its perfect work--but it has struck the death blow at its own black heart. If there has existed any tendency to forget the depth of its heinous wickedness and to be easy with those men who led in treason and infamy, that tendency has vanished. There never was a more sudden revolution of feeling in the common mind of a whole great nation, as has been effected by the assassination of our lamented President. Treason could have done nothing so destructive of its own ends, so suicidal to its own existence. Both at home and with the whole civilized world it stands now utterly and forever condemned. It has fully revealed its true character, and the reckless, godless barbarity which has indeed marked the conduct of the South throughout this war, the outgrowth and legitimate consequence of that revolting inhuman system of slavery. But thank God! Henceforth our flag must wave over a country undivided and free, where no cruel lash drives a human chattel to their unwilling work; where no being created immortal and redeemed by the blood of Jesus Christ is bought and bartered away for money; where no wanton outrage can under the sanction of law trample under foot the ties of marriage and family relations; where education can no more be made a penal offence; where life is held sacred; where a man can travel from Maine to Florida and to the far Pacific without carrying revolver and knife; where, within the bounds of reason and law, he can utter his sentiments without fear and restraint; where on every foot of it he can truly feel that it is his fatherland, belonging to him and every citizen from one end to the other throughout its vast extent; where he has the right of a freeman, the protection of the law, the consciousness of security, and a just pride in a great country and a superior form of government, that has stood the fiery trial of an unparalleled insurrection most victoriously and approved itself more worthy of the confidence of all mankind, and the respect of foreign powers, than ever before it was so severely tried.

And to this end President Abraham Lincoln has contributed more than any other man. Be has established freedom, and has died its martyr. He lived for a great, noble principle, and died for it. His death is the seal of Liberty. Be is our Martyr-President. The grateful heart of the nation will hold his name most dear and all future history will call him the Great and the Good. His name is enshrined in sacred memory in the hearts of the poor, the oppressed, and down-trodden, whose father and liberator he emphatically has been, and wherever and whenever, the crushing out of the system of human slavery upon the soil of these United States is mentioned, by word or print, there will be associated with it inseperably and most favorably the venerated, beloved name of Abraham · Lincoln, the great Liberator, and martyr of freedom!

The Nation has prayed to day, and is praying, that the mercyful and almighty God, our ruler and our guide may impart wisdom, and strength, and firmness to his successor, Mr. Andrew Johnson, and make him a willing and fit instrument in His Land to do His heavenly will, and lead this people through the mazes of difficulties which yet surround us on every side, to peace, and justice, and happiness, in the fear of God, to His honor and glory, Amen.

Source

The Leo Pascal Collection

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Johannes Oertel. "Johannes Oertel Diary". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed June 14, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/365

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Johannes Oertel

Date

April 19, 1865