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- 7 This is the sum of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived: one hundred and seventy-five years. 8 Then Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people. 9 And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, 10 the field which Abraham purchased from the sons of Heth.
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A young New York City merchant named Abraham Abraham (long before he and a partner founded the retail empire Abraham & Straus) reverently placed a Lincoln bust in his shop window, one of...
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On the 150th anniversary of the Great Emancipator’s assassination, Americans along the route of his funeral train reflect on his life and legacy.
This story appears in the April 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine.
The black box nestles deep beneath the U.S. Capitol, encased behind thick glass, caged by a metal grille, as if it were a dangerous object, a ticking bomb primed for its inevitable explosion. Perhaps in a sense it is. In April 1865 carpenters constructed this velvet-draped bier, known as the Lincoln catafalque, to display the murdered president’s casket in the building’s Rotunda; its dark cloth conceals the rough pine boards they hastily nailed together. Since then, it has been brought out each time a national martyr or hero lies in state: James Garfield, William McKinley, John F. Kennedy, Douglas MacArthur. The rest of the time it sits in a niche of the Capitol Visitor Center, passed without a glance by most of the tourist throngs as it awaits the next great American death.
Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, 150 years ago this month, has been recounted and reenacted innumerable times: The fateful trip to the theater, the pistol shot in the presidential box, the actor-assassin’s melodramatic leap to the stage, and death’s arrival at last in the back room of a cheap boardinghouse. Much less known is the story of what followed. The nation mourned Lincoln as it had never mourned before. In the process, it not only defined the legacy of an American hero, it also established a new ritual of American citizenship: the shared moment of national tragedy, when a restless Republic’s busy life falls silent.
During the weeks after Lincoln’s death, as his funeral train made a circuitous journey from Washington, D.C., back to his hometown of Springfield, Illinois, perhaps a million Americans filed past the open coffin to glimpse their fallen leader’s face. Millions more—as much as one-third of the North’s population—watched the procession pass.
That history isn’t so very far away: A 70-something friend of mine recalls hearing his grandfather talk about seeing the funeral cortege as a young boy in New York City. And even today, as I recently discovered, to follow the route of Lincoln’s train is to discover how much his spirit still pervades the nation he loved and saved.
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Born in poverty and “raised to farm work,” Lincoln the rough-hewn rail-splitter had, by age 37, become a prosperous lawyer in Springfield, Illinois. This daguerreotype, made shortly after he was elected to the U.S. Congress, is his earliest confirmed portrait.
ca 1846
Born in poverty and “raised to farm work,” Lincoln the rough-hewn rail-splitter had, by age 37, become a prosperous lawyer in Springfield, Illinois. This daguerreotype, made shortly after he was elected to the U.S. Congress, is his earliest confirmed portrait.
NICHOLAS H. SHEPHERD; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Apr 11, 2015 · U.S. Medical Staff Officer Dr. Charles Leale wore this sword while serving in the honor guard for Lincoln's body when it lay in state at the White House and the U.S. Capitol. Leale was on duty at ...
Michigan state jury convicts 13-year-old Nathaniel Abraham of second-degree murder for killing committed when he was 11; he is believed to be youngest American ever charged and convicted of...
Several months ago, at the behest of National Geographic, I retraced the route of the funeral train of Abraham Lincoln, the United States' 16th president, from Washington, D.C., halfway across the continent to his final resting place in Springfield, Illinois.
NAME: Abraham Lincoln; NICKNAMES: Honest Abe, the Great Emancipator; BORN: February 12, 1809, near Hodgenville, Kentucky; DIED: April 15, 1865, in Washington, D.C. TIME IN OFFICE: March 4,...
On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play, [2] Lincoln died of his wounds the following day at 7:22 am in the Petersen House opposite the theater. [3] .
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