The tragical procession

[Anita]

According to this article the hearse that carried Lincoln from the Petersen house to the White House on April 15, 1865 and to the train station on April 17, 1865 are one and the same.

"Jerry Sibert found the hearse on a Chambersburg, Pa., area farm in 1990 and bought it for $2,700. He had the hearse evaluated by the late historian D.L. Allebaugh, but the black-and-gold carriage has not been registered with an agency or society.

In his findings, Allebaugh wrote that on April 15, 1865, the hearse - termed Compound Unit No. 1 - carried Lincoln from the Peterson House to the White House. The coffin was wrapped in a flag and escorted by military personnel, he wrote.

The coffin was loaded back onto the hearse April 17 and taken to the train station, according to Allebaugh's writings. The train took Lincoln to be buried in Springfield, Ill.

A Washington, D.C., mortuary bought the hearse in the late 1860s, Allebaugh reported. He said the hearse, reportedly made by William J. Tickner & Sons Carriage Co. of Baltimore, changed ownership several times in Pennsylvania. Allebaugh and Sibert partnered to restore the hearse."

See the entire article at http://articles.herald-mail.com/2007-01-...al-library