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Indiana
At 7:00am on Saturday, April 30, the train arrived in Indianapolis. Church sermons there focused on the life of the one-time Hoosier boy.
The Indianapolis Journal reported: "... weather prevented the funeral pageant, but an offset to the disappointment of the people in this, was the increased facility given to view the remains as they lay in state at the Capitol."
"At nine o'clock the doors of the State House were thrown open, and the people who had patiently waited [entered]... the State where he passed some years of his youth, has rendered her full quota of honor to him as Savior of his Country."
-- Eyewitness William Coggeshall
Journalist William H. Smith recalled: "For hours and hours there was a steady procession of men and women passing through the building..."
Judge Joseph E. McDonald, a Democratic leader of the state exclaimed: "There lies the best, truest, wisest friend the South ever had in America, and they have no realized it."
Late that night the train departed for Illinois. |