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Book Synopsis Lincoln Funeral Train, The by : Michael Leavy
Download or read book Lincoln Funeral Train, The written by Michael Leavy and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The effective end of the American Civil War on April 9, 1865, had hardly sunk in when, only five days later, another disaster stunned the battered and bloodied nation. On the night of April 9, Pres. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. There would be time for vengeful thoughts later, but first the Great Emancipator was going to get a royal send-off. At the center of what would become a three-week national funeral was a spectacular train that would carry Lincoln's remains, and those of his deceased son, from Washington, DC, to Springfield, Illinois. "The Lincoln Special" steamed slowly out of spring mists, allowing thousands of mourners lining the tracks a lingering view. It was a logistics miracle; a romantic pageant of sorrow and wonder, carried off flawlessly. Through the tears, however, was a sense that America's identity had turned a corner and was about to enter a dynamic and hopeful future. Author of nine books, Michael Leavy is an avid Civil War and railroad historian. Leavy has searched through archives to locate rare photographs and new details and dispel some lingering myths surrounding this tragic but formative American event.
Book Synopsis Lincoln's Funeral Train by : Robert Reed
Download or read book Lincoln's Funeral Train written by Robert Reed and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lincoln funeral and the nearly 1,700-mile epic journey of the funeral train was the biggest single event to happen in the lives of American citizens at the time. Eyewitness accounts and historic images present this remarkable journey of President Abraham Lincoln's remains, from the nation's Capitol to his final resting place in Springfield, Illinois. Reed draws from reports, documents, and contemporary narratives to finally fully present the event.
Book Synopsis The Lincoln Funeral Train by : Scott D. Trostel
Download or read book The Lincoln Funeral Train written by Scott D. Trostel and published by Camtech Pub. This book was released on 2002 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History by : Richard Wightman Fox
Download or read book Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History written by Richard Wightman Fox and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-02-09 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A]n astonishingly interesting interpretation…Fox is wonderfully shrewd and often dazzling." —Jill Lepore, New York Times Book Review Abraham Lincoln remains America’s most beloved leader. The fact that he was lampooned in his day as "ugly and grotesque" only made Lincoln more endearing to millions. In Lincoln’s Body, acclaimed cultural historian Richard Wightman Fox explores how deeply, and how differently, Americans—black and white, male and female, Northern and Southern—have valued our sixteenth president, from his own lifetime to the Hollywood biopics about him. Lincoln continues to survive in a body of memory that speaks volumes about our nation.
Book Synopsis FDR's Funeral Train by : Robert Klara
Download or read book FDR's Funeral Train written by Robert Klara and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The April 1945 journey of FDR's funeral train became a thousand-mile odyssey, fraught with heartbreak and scandal. As it passed through the night, few of the grieving onlookers gave thought to what might be happening behind the Pullman shades, where women whispered and men tossed back highballs. Inside was a Soviet spy, a newly widowed Eleanor Roosevelt, who had just discovered that her husband's mistress was in the room with him when he died, all the Supreme Court justices, and incoming president Harry S. Truman who was scrambling to learn secrets FDR had never shared with him. Weaving together information from long-forgotten diaries and declassified Secret Service documents, journalist and historian Robert Klara enters the private world on board that famous train. He chronicles the three days during which the country grieved and despaired as never before, and a new president hammered out the policies that would galvanize a country in mourning and win the Second World War.
Download or read book RFK Funeral Train written by Paul Fusco and published by Umbrage Editions. This book was released on 2000 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snapshot of America at a crucial moment of transition.
Download or read book Bloody Crimes written by James L. Swanson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bloody Crimes, James L. Swanson—the Edgar® Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Manhunt—brings to life two epic events of the Civil War era: the thrilling chase to apprehend Confederate president Jefferson Davis in the wake of the Lincoln assassination and the momentous 20 -day funeral that took Abraham Lincoln’s body home to Springfield. A true tale full of fascinating twists and turns, and lavishly illustrated with dozens of rare historical images—some never before seen—Bloody Crimes is a fascinating companion to Swanson’s Manhunt and a riveting true-crime thriller that will electrify civil war buffs, general readers, and everyone in between.
Book Synopsis The Lincoln Trail in Pennsylvania: A History and Guide by :
Download or read book The Lincoln Trail in Pennsylvania: A History and Guide written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Abraham Lincoln Comes Home by : Robert Burleigh
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln Comes Home written by Robert Burleigh and published by Square Fish. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, the country grieved for the courageous president who had guided them through the Civil War. Over the course of thirteen somber days, people paid homage as Lincoln's funeral train made its way from Washington, D.C., to Springfield, Illinois. In moving prose and stunning paintings, a young boy experiences the deep feelings evoked by the assassination and death of a major historical figure, during a time of great change in the country.
Book Synopsis A Generation at War by : Nicole Etcheson
Download or read book A Generation at War written by Nicole Etcheson and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2023-02-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all that has been written about the Civil War's impact on the urban northeast and southern home fronts, we have until now lacked a detailed picture of how it affected specific communities in the Union's Midwestern heartland. Nicole Etcheson offers a deeply researched microhistory of one such community--Putnam County, Indiana, from the Compromise of 1850 to the end of Reconstruction-and shows how its citizens responded to and were affected by the war. Delving into the everyday life of a small town in one of the nineteenth century's bellwether states, A Generation at War considers the Civil War within a much broader chronological context than other accounts. It ranges across three decades to show how the issues of the day-particularly race and sectionalism-temporarily displaced economic and temperance concerns, how the racial attitudes of northern whites changed, and how a generation of young men and women coped with the transformative experience of war. Etcheson interrelates an impressively wide range of topics. Through temperance and alcohol she illustrates nativism and class consciousness, while through an account of a murder she probes ethnicity, politics, and gender. She reveals how some women wanted to "maintain dependence" and how the war gave independence to others, as pensions allowed them to survive without a male provider. And she chronicles the major shift in race relations as the most revolutionary change: blacks had been excluded from Indiana in the 1850s but were invited into Putnam County by 1880. Etcheson personalizes all of these issues through human stories, bringing to life people previously ignored by history, whether veterans demanding recognition of their sacrifice, women speaking out against liquor, or Copperheads parading against Republicans. The introduction of race with the North Carolina Exodusters marks a particularly effective lens for seeing how the idealism unleashed by Lincoln's war influenced the North. Etcheson also helps us understand how white Southerners tried to reunify the country on the basis of shared white racism. Drawing on personal papers, local newspapers, pension petitions, Exoduster pamphlets, and more, Etcheson demonstrates how microhistory helps give new meaning to larger events. A Generation at War opens a new window on the impact of the Civil War on the agrarian North.
Book Synopsis The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by : Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Download or read book The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln written by Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Lincoln Inaugural Train by : Cam-Tech Publishing
Download or read book The Lincoln Inaugural Train written by Cam-Tech Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2011-11-25 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by : Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Download or read book The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln written by Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Lincoln Funeral by : Michael Leavy
Download or read book The Lincoln Funeral written by Michael Leavy and published by Westholme Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Moment of Great National Sorrow Captured in Photographs and Drawings The Civil War burdened the United States economically, politically, morally, and spiritually, as nothing has before or since. The overwhelming cataclysm, which would have wrecked a lesser nation, ended with Robert E. Lee's surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox on April 9, 1865. Just as the weary citizens on both sides let themselves contemplate peacetime pursuits came one final blow. On April 14, a Marylander and outlandish white supremacist assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. Horrified northerners had vengeful thoughts. But vengeance would have to wait. The martyred president, contrary to the wishes of his devastated wife and family, would need an appropriate send-off, a funeral to rival that of an emperor. It would be the first American national funeral and possibly the most spectacular of all. In The Lincoln Funeral: An Illustrated History, artist and historian Michael Leavy presents this solemn, regal, and romantic event in contemporary photographs and drawings, some rarely reproduced. What emerges is a marvel of rapidly formed committees, highly polished trains, and clicking telegraph keys. Cities and towns went into a frenzy to out-do each other in honoring the fallen president. Trains and telegraphs drove the event, producing a near national hysteria that resulted in police having to restrain enormous crowds across the Northeast and Midwest. But this collection of illustrations demonstrates that the Lincoln funeral was not wholly about pageantry. The slow railroad procession and attending ceremonies to Illinois were a collective expression of intractable grief. People wanted somehow to keep "Old Abe" alive--the man who only a month earlier had been despised by as many as revered him. With his death the entire country understood how much he meant to the nation.
Book Synopsis The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by : Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Download or read book The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln written by Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection Publisher :Forgotten Books ISBN 13 :9780266563822 Total Pages :38 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (638 download)
Book Synopsis The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by : Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Download or read book The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln written by Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: Funeral Train Route, Springfield, Illinois, May 4, 1865 M r. Andrews will be 76 years old next May. He came here in 1906 from Mar shelltown, For a number of years he owned a barber shop at Lake Har riet. He was operating a shop on Lake street when he retired several years ago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by : Lincoln Financial Foundation
Download or read book The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln written by Lincoln Financial Foundation and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: Funeral Train Route, Cleveland, Ohio, April 28, 1865; Extracts From Newspapers and Other Sources On this day (just one week since Lincoln's remains left Washington) Cleveland was drenched in a heavy rainfall, but its citizens contended that tears were falling for the great, good man. As the train moved slowly into the station, Governor Brough and General Hooker could see through the windows vast crowds of people on the green hillsides along the track of the railroad. The depot was heavily draped with mourning cloth and flags. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.