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Two soldiers keep watch over Lincoln's casket in Springfield, Illinois

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Two sketches: one a general view. the other architectural details. Drawing shows President Abraham Lincoln laying in state at the Illinois statehouse in Springfield, Ill., May 3-4,1865. (Source: Mark Johnson, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, 2010)

Formerly misidentified as showing the casket in Washington, D.C.

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Inscribed below images: Lincoln.

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.150)

Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

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01/01/1865
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illinois
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lincoln abraham death and burial soldiers union guards funeral rites and ceremonies architectural elements capitols illinois springfield drawings american drawings documentary alfred r alfred rudolph waud two soldiers lincoln casket ultra high resolution high resolution american civil war civil war abraham lincoln united states history library of congress washington dc