A nine-car, garland-draped train carrying the coffin of assassinated President Abraham Lincoln left Washington on this day in 1865, headed toward Springfield, Illinois, where the nation’s 16th ...

RICHMOND, Tuesday, May 23, 1865. The Sixth Army Corps marched through Richmond this morning, on its way to Washington. They crossed the James at 7:30, marching up Seventeenth-street to Broad ...