The Lincoln Trail in Pennsylvania: A History and GuidePenn State Press, 25. jul. 2001 - 232 sider What is the Lincoln Trail in Pennsylvania? It is the story of Abraham Lincoln in the Keystone State—the chronicle of where he went, what he did, and what he said in the state. The trail begins with Lincoln's Pennsylvania ancestors, moves on to his travels, public appearances, and speeches, and concludes with his funeral train in 1865. The Lincoln Trail in Pennsylvania tells a story for the reader, but it is also a guide for those who would travel the state figuratively or literally, to recover the memory of America's sixteenth president. The Lincoln Trail in Pennsylvania transports the reader back in time to key moments in Lincoln's public life. In 1846, at the age of thirty-seven, Lincoln was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Using mileage that Lincoln claimed for his trip, available routes, duration of the journey, and average speeds, Bradley Hoch is the first to establish the probable route Lincoln followed on his way from Illinois to Washington, D.C. Hoch concludes that he traveled by steamboat along the Ohio and Monongahela Rivers and by stagecoach on the National Road into Maryland. After Lincoln was elected president in November 1860, he transformed his inaugural journey from Springfield to Washington into a grand railroad tour of northern cities, hoping to cement the people's loyalty to the Union and to himself. His inaugural train, the first of its kind, made several stops in Pennsylvania. Hoch follows Lincoln throughout his journey, including the dramatic last leg—the "secret night train"—when Allan Pinkerton and his agents, determined to protect Lincoln from would-be assassins, cut telegraph lines and sidetracked trains in order to spirit him safely from Harrisburg to Washington. Hoch recovers symbolic moments, none more moving than Lincoln's funeral train as it stopped in several Pennsylvania cities, including York, Harrisburg, Lancaster, and Erie. In Philadelphia, the Liberty Bell was placed at the head of Lincoln's coffin when it lay in Independence Hall. As more than one hundred thousand mourners passed by, the bell's inscription memorialized his life: "Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the Land unto all the inhabitants thereof." Rarely seen photographs, engravings, and maps enrich this illuminating volume. In the final chapter, Hoch offers a guide of sites to visit in present-day Pennsylvania, making The Lincoln Trail in Pennsylvania a welcome book for a wide range of readers interested in American history. |
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... Seward carried secret letters to Lincoln from his father Senator William H. Seward, from Winfield Scott, general-in-chief of the United States Army, and from a trusted army colonel. The colonel wrote that a New York detective, “has ...
... Seward if he knew how the information had been obtained. Had Seward ever heard the name Pinkerton? The young courier said no. Lincoln seemed to be evaluating the testimony he had been given, as if he were in a courtroom. Seward later ...
... Seward in a hallway, took him aside, and told him that Lincoln had decided to do as he had been advised. Pennsylvania Railroad passengers usually left central Philadelphia from the Eleventh and Market Street Station. Because locomotive ...
... Baltimore assassination plot alleged by General Winfield Scott and Frederick Seward. Alexander K. McClure, Republican ally North Street State Front Street Street SUSQUEHANNA RIVER Second Street “An Omen of What Is to Come” 17.
... Seward's visit the previous night with letters urging a change in his route. He had put Seward off, he said, telling him that he would make up his mind in Harrisburg. Later he reconsidered and let Seward know that he would change his ...
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Struck Blind Lincoln in Congress | 33 |
Dare to Do Our Duty Lincoln and the Pennsylvania Politicians | 49 |
To See and Be Seen The Inaugural Train | 62 |
Looked at Through a Fog Lincoln and the Railroads | 76 |
Unfinished Work The Gettysburg Address | 84 |
Comfort and Relief The Great Central Sanitary Fair | 107 |
Notes to Chapter 3 | 178 |
Notes to Chapter 4 | 180 |
Notes to Chapter 5 | 182 |
Notes to Chapter 6 | 183 |
Notes to Chapter 7 | 184 |
Notes to Chapter 8 | 187 |
Notes to Chapter 9 | 189 |
Notes to Chapter 10 | 191 |
The Heavens Are Hung in Black The Funeral Train | 121 |
Postscript The Literal TrailSites to Visit | 141 |
Springfield to Washington DC 1847 | 169 |
Lincoln and Pennsylvanias Railroads | 173 |
Notes to Chapter 1 | 175 |
Notes to Chapter 2 | 177 |
Notes to Appendix A | 193 |
Notes to Appendix B | 195 |
Bibliography | 197 |
Index | 205 |
COVER Back | 211 |