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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... day, however, Lincoln went directly to West Philadelphia after leaving the Continental Hotel at 8:30 a.m. Surrounded by mounted police, the open carriage with Lincoln, Colonel Sumner, Norman Judd, and William P. Hacker, president of ...
... days. When Lincoln's train stopped, he appeared on the rear platform of his car. Amid shouts and cheers he moved into ... day. “I come before you to see and be seen and, as regards the ladies, I have the best of the bargain; but, as to ...
... day. American flags were everywhere. A reporter for the Harrisburg Pennsylvania Daily Telegraph wrote, “They waved from lofty flag-staffs—from ropes suspended across streets—and from poles jutting out from windows of private residences ...
... day as he often had felt, “a very humble instrument. . . . I was in the hands of the people who had arranged it.” After Senator Palmer delivered a lengthy oration, Lincoln went back to the Jones House, arriving shortly after 4 p.m. At ...
... day, and Southern doubts about Northern courage grew. The New York Tribune hoped to see proof of “imminent and great ... days later Abraham Lincoln became the sixteenth president of the United States. The Mordecai Lincoln homestead in ...
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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 |