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President Lincoln's remains rest in a vault ten feet below and just behind the massive Arkansas marble monument before you.
The words "Now he belongs to the ages," inscribed on the wall behind the United States flag, are said to have been uttered by Secretary of War Edwin Stanton at Lincoln's deathbed.
Flags to the left of the monument honor the modern states within whose borders President Lincoln's ancestors once lived -- Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Flags on the right represent the states in which the president resided -- Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois. At the far right is the flag of the president of the United States.
Mary Lincoln and three of the four Lincoln sons are entombed in crypts bearing their names, located in the wall behind you. Robert Lincoln, by the decision of his wife, is buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. |