Funeral Train Photo Album

[LincolnToddFan]

(04-20-2015 05:36 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Thomas, thank you for posting your photos!

Here's an article about the exhibit in the Baltimore Sun:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/marylan...story.html

In that article guest curator and exhibit designer Daniel Carroll Toomey says, "I believe Lincoln's funeral is the most extensive presidential funeral in the history of the ... United States. A lot of people say, 'What about Kennedy?' Those people watched on television. These 7 million people that watched Lincoln's funeral train go by stood in the rain and stood in the dark."

I agree. The JFK funeral, which was closely patterned on Lincoln's, lasted over a three day weekend and was viewed by millions worldwide via TV satellite.

But Lincoln's State funeral was twenty days..and that isn't even counting the East Room ceremony and the lying in State at the Capitol Rotunda. There is no way to ever know how many millions viewed Abraham Lincoln in the various cities where he lay in State or simply stood along the railroad tracks all day and night for three weeks.