1865--March 4, inaugurated for the second term. April 14, assassinated
in Ford's Theater, Washington, by a mad actor, Wilkes Booth. April 19,
body lay in state at Washington. April 26, Booth slain in resisting
arrest, by Sergeant Boston Corbett, near Port Royal. April 21 to May 4,
funeral-train through principal cities North, to Springfield, Illinois.

1871--Temporarily deposited in catacomb.

1874--In catacomb, in sarcophagus. The completed monument dedicated.

1876--To frustrate repetition of body-snatchers' attempt, reinterred
deeper.

1900--A fifth removal; the whole structure solidly rebuilt, containing
the martyred President, his wife, and their three children, as well as
the grandson bearing Abraham's name.




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CHILDISH RIME.

In a copybook, at the age of nine or ten: