LINCOLN
COMES TO HARRISBURG
James E. Schmick
will present a program on “Lincoln Comes to Harrisburg” at the Camp Curtin Historical Society meeting at the Camp
Curtin Memorial-Mitchell United Methodist Church
2221 North Sixth Street, Harrisburg, at 2:00PM, Sunday, February 28, 2010,
Schmick is the founding president
of the Society and the co-author of Civil War Harrisburg, A Guide to Capital Area Sites, Incidents and Personalities.
His talk will cover Lincoln’s dramatic first visit on February 22, 1861, on the way to his inauguration.
After a long day of official ceremonies, the president-elect was secretly whisked out of town because of an assassination
plot.
After he was assassinated in 1865,
Lincoln’s body was returned to his hometown of Springfield, Illinois, by the same route he used to reach Washington
in 1861. While in Harrisburg, his body was viewed by thousands of mourners who filed through the Capitol
Building.
For directions
or information, telephone 717-732-5115 or email genjenkins@aol.com.