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Inside Lincoln’s Funeral Car

Lincoln Funeral Train

Independence Hall and the Funeral of Abraham Lincoln In this edition of "On Location" with a National Park Service Ranger, Ranger Thomas Daniels presents, "Independence Hall and the Funeral of Abraham Lincoln." Following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in April 1865, an elaborate public funeral returned his body to Illinois for burial. In Philadelphia, Lincoln's remains lay in repose in the Assembly Room of Independence Hall, where just four years earlier Lincoln had spoken of his

Did coffin flag from Abraham Lincoln's 1865 funeral train wind up hidden away in Florida?