Curious Cbus investigates a viewer's question about a Abraham Lincoln's Funeral Train. On April 15, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated and following his death, his body traveled on a ...

A display at the Pennsylvania Farm Show commemorates a tragic anniversary and a pivotal point in American history. A full-scale replica of a 4-4-0 steam locomotive is currently on display in the Farm ...

Editor's note: A version of this article was originally published in The State Journal-Register in Springfield, Ill., on Feb. 14, detailing the process used by an Elgin, Ill., team to replicate the ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Just one black-and-white photo exists of the horse-drawn funeral coach used to carry Abraham Lincoln’s body in 1865 to its final resting place in Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, ...

A steam locomotive pulling nine cars clanked and hissed past 2,000 Westville mourners en route to Michigan City 150 years ago, passing under archways accented in wreaths of evergreen and roses. On ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- It mattered not the time of day. The route of the Lincoln funeral train was lined with tens of thousands during its long journey home. Tens of thousands more would come to view the ...

One hundred fifty years ago, Chicago marked what was then the greatest tragedy most of its citizens had ever seen. At 11 a.m., the body of President Abraham Lincoln arrived by rail at a spot just ...

If you died 200 years ago in America, your family would wash and dress your body and place it in a bed surrounded by candles to dampen the smell of decomposition. Your immediate family and friends ...

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A dried rose from the funeral bier of Abraham Lincoln has been discovered—intact—in a forgotten box at an Illinois museum. Sandy Vasko, director of the Will County Historical Museum and Research ...

On April 30, 1865, Abraham Lincoln's funeral train, dubbed "The Lincoln Special," passed through Indianapolis on a 1,654-mile journey from Washington, D.C. to his burial site in Springfield, Illinois ...

Several months ago, at the behest of National Geographic, I retraced the route of Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train from Washington, D.C., halfway across the continent to his final resting place in ...