An Abraham Lincoln historian who’s working on a documentary about the Great Emancipator’s Funeral Train will give a talk to the Calumet City Historical Society Sunday.

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 ...

One of the first columns I wrote for the Columbia-Greene Media Newspapers more than 5 years ago was about the Lincoln Funeral Train. After his death on April 15, 1865 Lincoln’s body was placed in a ...

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 ...