The ferry carrying Abraham Lincoln over the Hudson docked at the Debrosses Street ferry port in New York City at ten in the morning and was conveyed with great ceremony to City Hall where it was to lay in state till the following afternoon.  A thousand-person choir German-American choir performed a midnight requiem as huge numbers of people filed past the dias. An even more impressive procession carried the remains to the Hudson Railway depot on 30th Street the following afternoon when the funeral train left for Albany and the state capitol.  (By John Osborne) 

The murdered president's remains had rested for two nights in Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Visits were halted at 2 a.m. and the funeral train departed from Philadelphia for New York City at 4 a.m.  Even at this early hour thousands lined the trackside. The train rolled through Trenton, New Jersey, the only state capital without a stop, and reached Jersey City, where the coffin was transferred to a ferry to cross the Hudson. (By John Osborne)

The murdered president's body had rested for the night in the Pennsylvania Capitol and had been viewed by thousands of silent mourners. The funeral train left Harrisburg at 11 a.m. and made its way across the Pennsylvania countryside towards Philadelphia. At Lancaster, former President Buchanan watched from his carriage as did Representative Thaddeus Stevens, standing alone, outside town. (By John Osborne)

The murdered president's body arrived in Baltimore, Maryland aboard its special train at ten a.m., directly from Washington, D.C. His coffin was taken to the Merchant's Hall in the city where it lay in state for several hours before being returned to the train for the next leg of its twelve-day journey across Maryland and Pennsylvania to Harrisburg where it rested for the night in the hall of the State House in the Pennsylvania Capitol. (By John Osborne)

Abraham Lincoln's remains were removed from the Capitol rotunda soon after dawn and taken by hearse to the train that would begin the twelve-day journey to his final rest in Springfield, Illinois.  His route would be the reverse of the one he made to take up the Presidency and his first stop was Baltimore, Maryland. Several thousand troops lined the tracks out of Washington in salute.  The train arrived at Baltimore two hours later. (By John Osborne)

Two hours after his death, as a spring rain fell in the capital, the body of Abraham Lincoln was removed from Petersen's 10th Street boarding house to the White House for embalming and other preparations.  His wooden coffin was placed in the East Room where the funeral service would be held two days later. (By John Osborne)

At noon on a bright spring day in Washington, D.C., around six hundred dignitaries gathered in the East Room of the White House for the funeral service of Abraham Lincoln. Following the sermon from Reverend P.D. Gurley of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Chuch, the president's remains were conveyed in a hearse drawn by six white horses to the Capitol rotunda where the coffin remained in state until Friday morning.  (By John Osborne)

The Jewish celebration of Passover, marking the Exodus from Egypt and freedom from slavery ends its commemoration for 1865.  (By John Osborne)

The Jewish celebration of Passover for 1865 begins, marking the Exodus from Egypt and freedom from slavery.  (By John Osborne)