Thursday, May 9, 2013

Digg Top Stories: Mystery Of Abraham Lincoln's Funeral Train Solved By Chemist

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Mystery Of Abraham Lincoln's Funeral Train Solved By Chemist
May 9th 2013, 12:09

Before 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 color of the president's railcar.

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