Abraham Lincoln's funeral train: A mystery is solved
Thursday, May 9, 2013 - 12:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
By Denise ChowLiveScienceBefore President Abraham Lincoln was laid to rest, a train carried his body on a two-week funeral procession across the Northern U.S. states in 1865. Mourners from New York to Illinois gathered to see the train and pay their final respects, but despite drawing millions of spectators, one detail of the much-publicized event was thought to have been lost to history: The colo...