SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WLS) -- It appears a re-creation of President Abraham Lincoln's funeral train will not take its voyage after all. Organizers were unable to raise the $250,000 needed for the trip ...
Tuesday marked the 160th anniversary of a somber day, as the funeral train taking fallen President Abraham Lincoln from Washington, D.C. back to Springfield, Illinois, passed through Champaign County ...
An Abraham Lincoln historian who’s working on a documentary about the Great Emancipator’s Funeral Train will give a talk to the Calumet City Historical Society Sunday.
One hundred fifty years ago the American Civil War had just ended and our nation was mourning the death of Abraham Lincoln. Events are planned this week in Columbia County to mark the anniversary of ...
One of two flags that flew from the locomotive of the Lincoln funeral train on the route between Albany and Utica, New York On April 19, 1865, an estimated 25 million Americans attended memorial ...