Robert Reed was my grandfather. He worked on the books for years and he put all his passion into it. He passed very shortly after he received the publishers copy of the book. It's been nine years tomorrow when he passed. It feels good to hear his voice again even though he was sick at the time.
God bless Robert Reed for giving future generations living history lessons of our greatest President from a time our leaders were revered. You have much to be thankful for. God bless.
What might be even more interesting is his father not going off to the Civil War because his mother begged him not to eventually led Teddy to create the Rough Riders when he was in his 40’s.
Same here in Indiana. I use to fish and swim off the bridge where the tracks used to be. Here's a video of the exact spot ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nhExdrhUwmo.html
My great great great great great grandfather was the fireman that shoveled coal into the engine on Lincoln’s train on the way to Springfield. I know little about him but my grandma told that they mention him at a Museum somewhere in Illinois. He also might be in the picture at 2:29.
@@carolsteinhauer5935 He probably isn’t as old as you are. Going back 25 years per generation (as an example) six times for the grandfathers, one generation for his parents and one generation for him would take us to the year 1819. His great-great-great-great-great grandfather would have been 46 years old while shoveling that coal. Completely realistic.
Why can't it be placed in Lincoln's Museum? Hard to believe no one is interested in the remodeled funeral car. Looks like a labor of love and devotion to our 16th President.
Unfortunately, the Political parties are trying to re-write history....southern statutes being demolished or taken down, southern flags being banned, slavery and our Presidents that owned slaves - leftists are demanding removal of status quo, etc.. it's a shame. What happened, happened. it's history, and is what was. Life moves on and people need to also, and learn from their ancestors. I love history and the bad stuff with the good. I also appreciate a young (and older)person that shows respect for all countries history and important forefathers and their importance to their future.
@@Pridegriffin A lot of Southerners don't like Lincoln. My ancestors fought under Lee, and Lincoln is my favorite American outside of my family. I have mixed feelings about the statues due to my great love of Civil War history, but the lost cause myth did a lot of damage here and also made people forget what the war was really like.
@@danwoodliefphotography871 I agree. I am a fan of the history of the civil war, and even though the statues of those people were horrible people, they shouldn't be taken down.
@@aerofiles5044 I disagree. I'd rather they be put in a museum than be destroyed, but either way, they are monuments glorifying the confederacy. The sooner they're gone, the better. You can remember history without statues.
No museum is interested......that's crazy. I know it's not the real thing but it's an exact replica of history. It would look nice at the Smithsonian at least. Give someone an idea of what it was like to be there in the train with Lincoln on his final trip home. These men did a great job on it's construction.
BEAUTIFUL!!! You would think that the Smithsonian, Henry Ford museum or even Lincoln's home town would be proud to display this demonstration of such a HUGE historical event! It is a replica, it's true but to actually see something SO CLOSE to the real thing should be deemed an HONOR By those who love history and admire what Mr Lincoln meant to millions of people! There will NEVER be another. Ronald Regan was the last of greatly respected leaders of our country.
I’m writing this from my home in England having stumbled upon this fascinating story of one of your greatest Presidents. (Maybe the greatest President). The labour of love that has gone into replicating the funeral car is a fabulous tribute to a great man and a great President.
Howdy, Brian! Shouldn't we shudder to consider some of those who have taken the responsibility of the position since President Lincoln? May GOD bless both of our countries with worthy leaders who will inspire compassion and furtive resourcefulness once again. Peace be with you, charitable sage...Lukerdog
my mom knows a man who is 101 years old. in 1928, when this man was 10 years old, he talked to a man who actually rode in a train with Lincoln. So, there is someone still alive today who spoke with someone who spoke to Lincoln.
@@rentslave I watched that episode . Very interesting and It felt very awesome to hear him talk about his historical memory. I've been to the Ford Theater and looked into the chamber . It said he died there in that rocker and I could see the stains . blood stains. I also thought it was absolutely gobsmacking that he had no guard outside that doorway/ entry. back then, it was probably curtained off. just guessing. And I saw the bedroom set-up that the Daughters of the American Revolution had moved to be in the same building (Ford Theater) back in early 19th century (1920's?). It really gave me chills up my neck as I stood there in the theater looking toward the stage and the Presidential Box. A feeling of awe, despair, sadness and respect hit me all at once as I looked upon the spot where this tragedy struck. I started tearing up, and I had to shake myself out of crying long and low. The whole time We spent there, my heart was heavy and felt such a sense of grief.
oh...then I saw an entry where a guy said the rocker where he actually set was in a museum in Michigan! Maybe now. My visit was in 91, so maybe they moved it there. But, at the time, it was noted that the rocker was the original one and all the other seats too. I saw blood stains on it. So... who knows!?!
My teacher made the exact replica for the hearse. He made it from one picture. He also fixes all the finials and other wood fixtures for our Victorian buildings here in Humboldt County. If you know the Carson mansion- he fixes up the pretty wood work that nobody does anymore. I was taught by him when I was a teen. He has a program that helps at risk youth and veterans find a place to work with their hands. His name is Eric Hollenbeck. The hearse was sent to the same place.
God bless you Abraham Lincoln and happy birthday to you as you are laid to rest in peace god bless you for saving our nation for our freedom and our god truly bless him to live to grow up as a man never fail and never give up on his soilders along time ago and thank you for our people who was a slavely in the past is now shall be freedom to all our Amercia people we are citizen of usa for our other culture you are free in our country no more hates of people shall be treat with respect at all as for my god created us on Earth no more volience we shall show love as we are together as peace and love that what our big brother want us to do for one another to Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln and jessie jackson and Baraka Obama too and we dont zero tolater no more devil mess nothing but love with our god is peace ok we love you so do my lord too .i am s w
It amazes me no museum is interested. But it would require a lot of space I guess. They did a fine job on it! Bobby Kennedy is the only other figure I know for whom crowds stood on train tracks.
I would think that the main reason for the museum not wanting to display the train car is because it is a replica of the original. If it had been the original refurbished car, I think the museums would jump at the chance to put it on display.
liberty Ann I'll take it put it in my back yard don't he have a museum why can't they build separate wing and put it there such shame nobody want it' it should be protected. Even if its just copy I feel its part history.
Wonderful ,I agree with the comment who said, over 153 years ago, this Great man was murdered by a coward! Booth was indeed a coward ! May The greatest man & President who ever lived RIP, He now belongs to the Angels, and to the Ages. Just look at the hundreds of people who came to mourn and show their respect! Black & white. Presidents now, could only hope to be that Loved! Hundreds and thousands still love him today! Oh there are those that would like people to believe, otherwise, but they will never, ever, convince intelligent people of their lies. For He will go down in History as just what He was. A Great Man and President. And no one can , or ever will, Change that historic FACT.
I don't know what 6-year old Teddy thought about the procession, but I do know that he greatly admired Lincoln, using him as a role model. Coincidentally, Roosevelt's Secretary of State, John Hay (at the end of his life) was also Lincoln's personal secretary (at the beginning of his adult life).
I can throw a rock from my house and hit the rails where Lincoln's funeral train went by here in Ohio, I live right across the street from it. There's actually a railroad museum there now, as it used to be a main depot station for outbound trains to Cleveland/Chicago (west) or NYC (east). I don't believe they have anything featured depicting the Lincoln train route and the fact that it went right by this muesum, now that i think of it they should put a plaque or a route map at this site you would think?
My neighbor down the road had an abandoned railroad track in his back yard in the woods and it was, the very track that carried Abraham Lincoln’s body. It’s called the Norfolk southern.
I imagine they felt honored. People used to have their loved ones displayed in their homes for 4-5 days back then because transportation made it hard for everyone to get around.
The band you see and hear near the end is President Lincoln's Own Band. We were the band that was in the Spielberg movie "Lincoln" and these are the uniforms used in the movie. We have a facebook page too if you want to search for us. We have done some pretty incredible things!! Don Johnson, Artistic Director of President Lincoln's Own Band.
I am proud to say that through extensive research on ancestry, I have discovered a direct link between myself (and my children) to Nancy Hanks Lincoln. My maternal great grandmother was Nancy’s first cousin. It’s an unbelievable discovery! That also makes me a distant relative of Mr. Tom Hanks, the famous actor! What a small world in which we share!
OMG! I have a dresser just like the one on the train. I bought it in the 80’s. The boxes on the top are for gloves and handkerchiefs. The mirror is called a “Horseshoe” mirror.
what a beautiful job. how sad there is "no interest." what has happened to a generation that respects history? have we lost them? history is precious but is it fading in a techno frenzy. We don't need tangible if we have RU-vid? We'd better hope not. Love the voice of the narrator.
They say that Lincoln's funeral train travels the same line as a ghost on the anniversary of his assassination stopping clocks and emerging in a phantom mist with skeleton's of Union guards protecting it.
I wonder if the National Museum of Funeral History in Houston is aware of this train car. They have a replica of his coffin, as well as many other historical artifacts that pertain to funerals from around the world. Even hearses and funeral carriages...this would add to their already great collection
One of the truly great presidents, and such a terribly sad end. As for Booth, there are no words to describe him and it is a great pity his name is even remembered.
Too bad the original isn't still around. Museums would probably take an immediate interest in it if it was. They did a good job of constructing the replica though. It might not be the real thing, but it would probably give people a good idea as to what it was like to be in the train if a museum took it.
Modern embalming was created in that war, an art lost with the ancient Egyptians, because we had train transportation and lots of bodies far from home but no way to keep the bodies fresh. Without that war there probably wouldn't be embalming anywhere in the world today (it's still only mainly in the US).
My name is Mark Miernicki . The original car burned in a field that used be across from my home . What is left of it was buried behind my house . Under a hill that my garage sits on now in Columbia Heights MN just outside of Minneapolis > A University of Minnesota student heard about it and took soil samples . Never heard back from her .
Millard Fillmore, the 13th President of the United States, boarded Lincoln's funeral train at Batavia, NY, and rode in the Presidential Car to Buffalo, where he attended the funeral in Niagara Square, along with 100,000 people, including the young Grover Cleveland.
Lincoln Unmasked Myth 4: "Lincoln was devoted to equality" Lincoln's words, and more importantly, his actions thoroughly contradict this claim. " I have no purpose to introduce political, and social equality between the white, and black race" he stated this in his August 21, 1858 debate with Stephen Douglas. Incredible various Lincoln scholars take a a statement like this and some-how conclude that Lincoln "really" meant I do have a purpose to introduce political , and racial equality. Mostly statements like this are simply ignored, and kept from innocent eyes of schoolchildren. Lincoln opposed the immigration of black people into Illinois, supported the Illinois Black Codes which deprived the small number of free blacks who resided in the state, or any resemblance of citizenship, and was a leader of the Illinois Colonization Society, which persuaded the state legislative to allocate funds to "colonize" or deport, free blacks. A syndicated colomnist Joseph Soberan has remarked, Lincoln's position was blacks could be "equal" all right but not in the United States. He favored colonizing the in Africa, Haiti, Central, and South America, anywhere but in but in the United States. This position was supported by a vast majority of Northerners, and Lincoln as an astute, and brilliant politician supported it as well. As a man of his time, Lincoln held views that can only be described as views of a white supremacists. If people would take time on an education. Instead of relying on what they've been told to believe, then they will know the truth.
What you are conveniently ignoringg is that by the time he became President and ESPECIALLY when he wrote the Emancipation Proclamation Lincoln had CHANGED HIS STANCE on black Americans and slavery. He was a human being. Human beings arent static with ONE thought their whole lives.
Amazing that no museum is interesting in the train car replica, astonishing actually. I guess they think the price is too high, since the volunteers who built it have only raised less than half of the over 300k it cost. I also find it amazing that no one thought to preserve the original.
I'm living Istanbul Turkey. Greetings and respect to everyone from here. I love Abraham Lincoln so much. He was really a big man. He was unfortunately killed. He is rest in peace... Always respect...
President Abraham Lincoln Was Excellent And Full Of Grace And Faith, Plus Each And Every Avenue He Walked Along During His Life And Presidency Will Alway's Be Remembered All For The Great American People. R.I.P.
*Was his son dug up from his grave? So strange. I'd never heard anything of the already deceased son being transported w/ Lincoln. Really interesting video.*
On May 1st 1865 at 8:01AM the train bareing the body of our 16th President stopped for 15 minutes in my home town of Westville, Indiana. A plaque still stands at that spot today.
That tacky looking train and rejection of the replica is another reason why Springfield is a lousy city! I am a native and current resident of Illinois and thus I would know. I never want to go to go back there ever again.
I heard some where that the original car was part of of the consist that was used by the Union Pacific delegation(possibly Thomas Durant's personal car) during the golden spike ceremony at Promontory Utah in 1869. I do not know how accurate this information is though.
After reading the numerous books on Lincoln such as two of the most well resourced books you will ever read, Lincoln Unmasked and The Real Lincoln by economist and professor Thomas Di Lorenzo you will come away with a mind altering realty, hidden from us by those who wrote the history - the war mongers. A fascinating look at the legislation in both the North and South that can't be ignored and socio-economics leading up to the Civil War instead of the customary "who shot John" or which General won or lost the most battles analysis given to us by most historian. If I were going to give my child one book to read it would be Lincoln Unmasked. It even goes into the past and current debates on some of the major issues, hidden from us, such as Lincoln's well known position as a white separatists, yet abolitionist. You are going to fall out of your chairs.
Haha "great leader." Anyways, it's a neato cheeto tourist attraction at least. Charge five bucks and let people on. It'll get popular and you'll make money. I didn't even know this existed until just now.
Who knew they did this? From every thing I seen about this thaey had huge catapolts and victorian style drapery and plumes. And are they showing an actual factcimallie of the body? 😮
That BEAUTIFUL replica is a museum in its self!!!!!! I pray the builders are thanked, appreciated and paid back for all their effort and more!!! How inspiring!!!
@@jonburrows2684 Radical Republican Congressman during and after the civil war, notable for the fact that he supported equal rights for African Americans whereas most of his other radical Republican colleagues did not
I read somewhere that the train travel on tracks of no less then 23 different railroads. like really? I don't understand why not one piece of his funeral train was saved, it all got scrapped.
The train came through Indianapolis Indiana but no one mentions that. Knightstown Indiana is about 34 miles west of Indianapolis on US 40 and I've been there several times.
Coincidentally, one afternoon a few weeks ago I went to the Sprouts supermarket, which is housed in the former train depot in Philadelphia where Lincoln's coffin arrived on its way to be displayed in front of Independence Hall, just as the funeral train for former President George H. W. Bush was heading to his final resting place at his library near Houston.
