Did Robert Lincoln Ride the Funeral Train to Baltimore?
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01-27-2015, 05:29 PM
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RE: Did Robert Lincoln Ride the Funeral Train to Baltimore?
Charles R. Page, of the New York Daily Tribune reported May 4, 1865:
"Up to this morning it had not been finally determined whether the remains would be deposited at Oak Ridge Cemetery or in a vault hastily built on the “Mother [Mather] Place,”..... Preparations were made at each place, but this morning, ON THE ARRIVAL OF CAPTAIN ROBERT LINCOLN AND JOHN G. NICOLAY, late private Secretary, from Washington, the question was decided in favor of Oak Ridge, ...." |
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