Two days after the body of former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is laid to rest in his hometown of Springfield, Illinois, current President Andrew Johnson issues an executive order for a military trial for eight named co-conspirators in the murder of Lincoln and the attempted murder of Secretary of State William H. Seward and other…
As Abraham Lincoln‘s funeral train — the Lincoln Special — travels from Harrisburg to Philadelphia, tens of thousands of people line the route to catch a glimpse of the car bearing Lincoln’s remains. Not since the deaths of America’s Founding Fathers has there seemingly been national mourning on the massive scale as that over the…
One day after President Abraham Lincoln‘s untimely death by the bullet of assassin John Wilkes Booth, hundreds, perhaps thousands, of pulpits in the North and Union-occupied areas of the South address the president’s death. Many Baptist preachers speak of Lincoln, often weaving the president into the Easter theme of sacrifice and renewal. More common yet…