Lincoln Image of Lincoln's Funeral Procession

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This April 19, 1865 photo made available by the Library of Congress shows a procession for President Abraham Lincoln's funeral on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington.

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150 years ago today.
 
After the autopsy Lincoln’s body was brought (Monday evening, April 17) to the great East Room; the room was draped with crape and black cloth, relieved only here and there by white flowers and green leaves. The catafalque upon which the casket lay was about fifteen feet high, and consisted of an elevated platform resting on a dais and covered with a domed canopy of black cloth which was supported by four pillars, and was lined beneath with fluted white silk... From the time the body had been made ready for burial until the last services in the house, it was watched night and day by a guard of honor, the members of which were one major-general, one brigadier-general, two field officers, and four line officers of the army and four of the navy. The room was darkened — a sort of chapelle ardente. April 19: a short service was held in the Green Room. [Wikipedia]
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