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Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati R.R. : special time schedule for the train conveying the remains of Abraham Lincoln, late President of the U.S., and escort, from Washington, D.C., to Springfield, Ill

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Title: Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati R.R. : special time schedule for the train conveying the remains of Abraham Lincoln, late President of the U.S., and escort, from Washington, D.C., to Springfield, Ill
Alternative Title: Cleveland to Columbus, Saturday, April 29th, 1865.
Creator: Sanford & Hayward, printer
Date Created and/or Issued: 1865
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: United States Civil War
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: A white silk keepsake giving the timetable of President Abraham Lincoln's funeral train from Cleveland to Columbus on the Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati Railroad. There is an illustration at the top of the page of a woman weeping alongside Lincoln's coffin, with a crying soldier in the upper left corner and a crying sailor in the upper right corner.
Cleveland to Columbus, Saturday, April 29th, 1865 -- leaving Cleveland at 12 Midnight and showing minute-by-minute progress through 22 cities before arriving at 7:30 AM in Columbus. There is a note at the bottom signed by E.S. Flint, the railroad superintendent, warning that the funeral train will have right of way over all other trains, and will be preceded by a pilot locomotive by ten minutes.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 keepsake: silk; 28 cm x 18 cm (11 in. x 6 3/4 in.)
Identifier: 441054:04
7502
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll6/id/4950
Language: English
Subject: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Death and burial
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Funeral journey to Springfield
Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati Railroad Company--Timetables
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Source: United States Civil War, Huntington Digital Library
Relation: Abraham Lincoln, April 1865 : [scrapbook of funeral and mourning memorabilia]
Provenance: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. C. David Herlihy, February 1975.

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