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.

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