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09-12-2014, 12:13 AM
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RE: Lincoln Funeral Train
(09-10-2014 08:58 PM)LincolnToddFan Wrote:  In my minds eye, AL's funeral train procession slowly making it's way West by torchlight and bonfires at night must have been haunting and beautiful....not even taking into account some of the hymns that were reportedly sung.

Nowadays, news helicopters would accompany it every step of the way. Can you imagine what that must have looked like from the night sky in the late spring of 1865?

Toia, the scene was also recreated in a tourism ad for the state of Illinois:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtV-vpzPj5Y
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Lincoln Funeral Train - historybuff22 - 06-17-2014, 10:43 PM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - LincolnToddFan - 06-17-2014, 11:05 PM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - RJNorton - 06-18-2014, 03:57 AM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - LincolnToddFan - 06-18-2014, 11:07 AM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - LincolnMan - 06-18-2014, 08:45 AM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - L Verge - 06-18-2014, 06:54 PM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - historybuff22 - 06-24-2014, 10:59 PM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - Gene C - 06-24-2014, 11:02 PM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - historybuff22 - 06-25-2014, 01:44 PM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - STS Lincolnite - 08-17-2014, 12:43 PM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - RJNorton - 08-17-2014, 03:28 PM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - STS Lincolnite - 08-17-2014, 03:38 PM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - Eva Elisabeth - 08-17-2014, 05:13 PM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - L Verge - 08-17-2014, 05:13 PM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - LincolnToddFan - 08-18-2014, 11:18 PM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - RJNorton - 08-19-2014, 04:56 AM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - LincolnToddFan - 08-19-2014, 09:03 AM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - Gene C - 08-19-2014, 10:04 AM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - LincolnToddFan - 08-19-2014, 08:52 PM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - STS Lincolnite - 09-09-2014, 12:15 PM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - L Verge - 09-10-2014, 10:52 AM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - L Verge - 09-10-2014, 12:51 PM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - Rsmyth - 09-09-2014, 02:01 PM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - historybuff22 - 09-09-2014, 02:20 PM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - STS Lincolnite - 09-09-2014, 04:11 PM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - Rsmyth - 09-09-2014, 06:32 PM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - RJNorton - 09-10-2014, 04:37 AM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - Rsmyth - 09-10-2014, 06:29 AM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - RJNorton - 09-10-2014, 01:16 PM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - LincolnToddFan - 09-10-2014, 08:58 PM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - Angela - 09-12-2014 12:13 AM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - RJNorton - 09-11-2014, 04:30 AM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - LincolnToddFan - 09-11-2014, 09:47 PM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - RJNorton - 09-12-2014, 04:07 AM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - L Verge - 09-12-2014, 08:13 AM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - LincolnToddFan - 09-14-2014, 09:03 PM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - Eva Elisabeth - 09-14-2014, 09:34 PM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - Hess1865 - 09-15-2014, 04:55 AM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - Angela - 09-15-2014, 02:43 PM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - historybuff22 - 09-15-2014, 09:15 PM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - LincolnToddFan - 09-20-2014, 11:32 AM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - historybuff22 - 09-20-2014, 10:13 PM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - STS Lincolnite - 09-20-2014, 10:31 PM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - RJNorton - 02-12-2015, 10:56 AM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - Thomas Kearney - 02-20-2015, 11:55 AM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - HerbS - 03-27-2015, 08:04 AM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - RJNorton - 03-27-2015, 10:58 AM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - HerbS - 03-27-2015, 02:46 PM
RE: Lincoln Funeral Train - RJNorton - 04-09-2015, 09:56 AM

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