J.C. Power. Abraham Lincoln, His Great Funeral Cortege, From Washington City to Springfield, Illinois. WIth a History and Description of the National Lincoln Monument. Springfield, Illinois: N.p., 1872. 4to. Original illustrated blue cloth gilt.

FIRST EDITION book recounting the many funeral processions held for President Abraham Lincoln after his assassination. Includes a frontispiece portrait and fold-out map of Oak Ridge Cemetery, the site of Lincoln's Tomb in Springfield, Illinois. Written by John Carroll Power (1819-1894), the historian and first custodian of Lincoln's tomb from its opening in 1874 until his death in 1894.

[Abraham Lincoln, Assassination, John Wilkes Booth, Funeralia, Books, Ephemera, Civil War, Union, Confederate, Politics]