Lincoln's remains rested in a pagoda-style catafalque, which allowed local mourners to pay their respects in 2 moving lines. A portion of the 29th Ohio National Guard and the Veteran Reserve Corps ...

Perhaps in a sense it is. In April 1865 carpenters constructed this velvet-draped bier, known as the Lincoln catafalque, to display the murdered president’s casket in the building’s Rotunda ...