Lincoln's Killing Shocked the Nation-- Part 7: "The Scene Was the Most Pathetic Ever Witnessed"

Two days later, April 21, Lincoln's slow and final journey home to Springfield, Illinois, began.  A special nine-car funeral train made stops in cities along the way, where upward of 1.5 million people viewed the coffin.

The president of the New York Central railroad was on that train and said:  "As we sped over the rails at night, the scene was the most pathetic ever witnessed.  At every crossroads the glare of innumerable torches illuminated the whole population, kneeling on the ground."

--Old secesh