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Excerpt from The Lincoln Memorial: A Record of the Life, Assassination, and Obsequies of the Martyred President The death of President Lincoln and the terrible circum stances attending it, his funeral rites, solemn beyond example in history, and the passage of his honored remains from city to city for thousands of miles, created too deep an impression not to make the scenes and the words Spoken by the great and eloquent in that season matters to be preserved as a record for after time and thought. To meet this feeling, the present Memorial has been com piled. Original matter has been furnished, and the full reports of the press, in all parts of the country, freely used. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.