Did Robert Lincoln Ride the Funeral Train to Baltimore?

[Anita]

(05-05-2015 06:11 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  

(05-05-2015 05:34 PM)Anita Wrote:  Robert was very clear that he wanted the Lincoln family buried together in Springfield.

When he asked for these arrangements to be made he wrote on the very day to a friend he "would not press it for a moment but would build my own family tomb somewhere".

What was the context? Why would he have to" press it" in the first place?