When President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) was assassinated, his
body was carried by train and by carriage through 180 cities
before reaching Springfield, Illinois, where it was buried. The
route passed through New Jersey and Princeton students are
reported to have stood in silence as it passed. The train
stopped briefly in New Brunswick and Newark, before the body was
transferred to a ferry, which carried it from Jersey City to New
York City. Once in NYC, the casket remained at City Hall Park
all day and through the next morning, when it was loaded into a
glass-sided hearse pulled by sixteen horses and taken to the
Hudson River Railway Depot at 10th Avenue and 30th Street. This
albumen photograph taken on April 25 shows the procession moving
up Broadway, just south of Astor Place. The Church of the
Messiah (Unitarian) is seen at the center of the frame. The
platform of the hearse was fourteen feet long, eight feet wide,
and five feet from the ground, so the crowds could see the
coffin through the glass. The