Lincoln Funeral Train

[RJNorton]

Angela, what a moving link! Thank you for posting. Dave Taylor once posted that he had read the Lincoln funeral train was the most watched event in American history prior to the advent of television. Some of the attendance figures I have seen are really amazing. For example, officials of Richmond, Indiana, estimated its mourners at 15,000 - a number greater than the city's population - at 3:15 A.M. in the morning!