As the fun-er-al pro-ces-sion moved from the White House to the church, it was seen that the es-cort was a reg-i-ment of black men, whose free-dom from sla-ver-y had come from him whose voice and hand were now stilled by death. The State of Il-li-nois said the last rest-ing place of A-bra-ham Lin-coln must be on that soil. Then a group of men in high pla-ces, Ad-mir-als of the Na-vy, Gen-er-als of the Ar-my, with States-men and oth-ers made a guard of hon-or, and went on that long jour-ney to the tomb with the pre-cious dust, stop-ping in man-y cit-ies that peo-ple might look once more on the dead form of the man who led all oth-er men. On May 14, 1865, the great Cap-tain, his life work done, was laid to rest in Oak Ridge Cem-e-te-ry, Spring-field, Il-li-nois. The ser-vice was plain. There was a hymn, a pray-er, a few words, then the read-ing of Lin-coln’s sec-ond in-au-gu-ral ad-dress. Notes of sym-pa-thy came to the U-ni-ted States from rul-ers of oth-er lands. It seemed as if all the world laid wreaths up-on the bier of A-bra-ham Lin-coln. “Rest to the un-crowned king who toil-ing brought His bleed-ing coun-try through a dread-ful reign: Who, liv-ing, earned the world’s re-ver-ing thought, And dy-ing, leaves his name with-out a stain.” [Illustration] Transcriber’s Notes: ――Text in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_). ――A List of Illustrations has been provided for the convenience of the reader. ――Punctuation and spelling inaccuracies were silently corrected. ――Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved. ――Hyphenation has been silently corrected for single- and multiple-syllable words as necessary, due to the nature of the book. End of Project Gutenberg's The Life of Abraham Lincoln, by Harriet Putnam