In 1876, Abraham Lincoln’s body sat in an unguarded tomb in a cemetery about two miles outside of Springfield. That year, two Chicago counterfeiters hatched a plot to steal it.

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Thieves have taken a 3-foot-long copper sword from atop Lincoln's Tomb in what is believed to be the first theft at the site in more than a century.

That night, Tyrrell and his detectives got to the tomb first. They hid inside and waited. ... Lincoln's Tomb makes Oak Ridge Cemetery nation's second most visited .

In 1876, Abraham Lincoln's body lay within an aboveground white marble sarcophagus in a handsome tomb on the grounds of Springfield, Ill.'s Oak Ridge Cemetery.

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He told the Lincoln Monument Association, local friends and peers of Lincoln’s who were in charge of the tomb. They did nothing. ... That night, Tyrrell and his detectives got to the tomb first.

The blood-stained leather gloves that were in Lincoln’s pocket the night he was assassinated were among the 144 items up for bid, 136 of which sold.

It was July 3, 1876 – the eve of our country’s first centennial. Everyone in Springfield would be celebrating downtown. No one would be near Oak Ridge Cemetery. It was the perfect time to ...

He has emulated Lincoln by naming some members of the opposing political party to his cabinet. Today the 44th president returns to Springfield to mark the Lincoln bicentennial.

Here Is a footnote written in the books of history not very well discussed or well known. It is the tale of Abraham Lincoln's corpse, after he was assassinated.

It was July 3, 1876 — the eve of our country’s first centennial. Everyone in Springfield, Ill., would be celebrating downtown. No one would be near Oak Ridge Cemetery.