President Lincoln Funeral, Union Square

Original title: The Funeral of President Lincoln, New York, April 25th, 1865, Passing Union Square − The magnificent Funeral Car was drawn by 16 grey horses richly caparisoned with ostrich plumes and cloth of black trimmed with silver bullion. Lithograph published by Currier & Ives. Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Soldiers on foot and horses draped in black cloth, pull an ornately decorated funeral car bearing the coffin of Abraham Lincoln through Union Square watched by crowds of pedestrians. Lincoln's body lay in state in New York's City Hall on April 24th and 25th, 1865. After the president's assassination on April 15th, three weeks of mourning ceremonies took place in a series of fourteen cities, the coffin carried by train between them, before burial in Springfield, Illinois on May 4th.

The Abraham Lincoln Monument, in Union Square, was dedicated on September 16, 1870, originally installed at the southwest corner of Union Square and later relocated to the north end of Union Square Park.