Lincoln Tomb statue repaired

You might recall that a vandal recently damaged a statue of a Civil War soldier atop the Lincoln Tomb by breaking the soldier’s sword.  The statue has now been repaired, thanks to sculptor Mark Svendsen, who molded a replacement from pieces of the recovered sword.

Lincoln’s eventful afterlife

Click here to read a short summary of the bizarre adventures of Lincoln’s corpse, from its trip to Springfield in 1865 to an elaborate reburial in the twentieth century.