Abraham Lincoln's funeral procession in Washington moved down Pennsylvania Avenue.

On April 19, 1865 an enormous procession of government officials and members of the U.S. Military escorted Lincoln's body from the White House to the Capitol.

This photograph shows part of the procession during a halt along Pennsylvania Avenue. Buildings along the way were decorated with black crepe. Thousands of Washingtonians stood silently as the procession passed.

Lincoln's body remained in the Capitol's rotunda until Friday morning, April 21, when the body was carried, in another procession, to the Washington depot of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

A long journey by train returned Lincoln's body, and the body of his son Willie, who had died in the White House three years earlier, to Springfield, Illinois. In cities along the way funeral observances were held.