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 ...

On the 150th anniversary of the Great Emancipator’s assassination, Americans along the route of his funeral train reflect on ...

On April 15, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was infamously assassinated. Six days later, his body began its journey to Springfield, Illinois, from Washington to be buried. He was transported by train ...

In the 19th century, cities faced a strange problem — too many dead and not enough space to bury them. The solution came by rail. Beginning in 1854, special funeral trains transported coffins and ...

It was 161 years ago this week that Abraham Lincoln's funeral train traveled through Indiana for a solemn, statewide vigil that tied Indianapolis to a national moment of mourning. Driving the (old) ...

Tuesday marked the 160th anniversary of a somber day, as the funeral train taking fallen President Abraham Lincoln from Washington, D.C. back to Springfield, Illinois, passed through Champaign County ...

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One of two flags that flew from the locomotive of the Lincoln funeral train on the route between Albany and Utica, New York On April 19, 1865, an estimated 25 million Americans attended memorial ...