Front:
THES
LINCOLN FUNERAL CAR,
SOUVENIR
42ND NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT
G. A,R
USMAR
Back:
...Post Card...
Put One
N the 14th of April, 1865, (exactly four years after
the surrender of Fort Sumter) when everything
looked hopeful and the war was over, President
Lincoln was shot and a day later passed away, and the
nation was plunged into mourning. The car illustrated
on this card had recently been built for the President and
his Cabinet. It became his funeral car, and on April 21st,
after most impressive obsequies, this car (bearing the
President's remains,) with six other cars and the locomo-
tive all heavily draped with black, slowly moved out of
Washington amid a vast crowd of silent and sad specta-
tors. History does not record a more touching spectacle
than the passing of this funeral train through the most
populous states of the Union. At every point along the
route vast throngs stood with uncovered heads while the
train passed by. In city and country buildings were
draped in mourning and flags drooped at half mast. On
May 3rd the train reached Springfield, ill., and on the
following day, as a chorus sang "Peace, Troubled Soul,”.
the casket was closed forever. Myron H. Lamson, the
father of the Lamson Brothers, an enlisted mechanic,
served as assistant foreman during the construction of
this car and the remodeling to receive the President's
remains. The photograph has been in the family for 43
years and now that a united nation reveres the memory
of Lincoln and everything connected with his life and
death, we thought it appropriate that we should present
this picture to the brave men to whom our nation is so
greatly indebted.
THE LAMSON BROTHERS COMPANY
August 31st, 1908.
TOLEDO, Ohio.
COPYRIGHTED, 1908.
