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ABRAHAM LINCOLN 295 leaped upon a horse, which was held there in readi ness for him, and made his escape. The president was carried to a small house on the opposite side of the street, where, surrounded by his family and the principal officers of the government, he breathed his last at 7 o clock on the morning of April 15. The assassin was found by a squadron of troops twelve days afterward, and shot in a barn in which he had taken refuge. The body of the president lay in state at the Capitol on April 20 and was viewed by a great concourse of people ; the next day the funeral train set out for Springfield, 111. The cortege halted at all the principal cities on the way, and the remains of the president lay in state in Baltimore, Harris- burg, Philadelphia, New York, Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, and Chicago, being received everywhere with extraordinary demonstrations of respect and sorrow. The joy over the return of peace was for a fortnight eclipsed by the universal grief for the dead leader. He was buried, amid the mourning of the whole nation, at Oak Ridge, near Springfield, on May 4, and there on October 15, 1874, an impos ing monument the work of the sculptor Larkin G. Mead was dedicated to his memory. The monument is of white marble, with a portrait-statue of Lincoln in bronze, and four bronze groups at the corners, representing the infantry, cavalry, and artillery arms of the service and the navy.