the president was buried on may 4 in oak ridge cemetery in springville, illinois. sarah jencks: but many people say that these funerals were not just for president lincoln. they also represented the mourning of the boys and men who never got their own funerals because they lay dying or buried in the battlefields around the country. and if so, president lincoln's funeral was for more than just president lincoln in many ways. david mckenzie: now, right after lincoln's death he became for many a martyr. let's not forget, lincoln was assassinated on good friday. so many ministers made comparisons between lincoln and christ. also, a lot of rabbis brought up the fact that this is occurring -- this was right during passover. we are working with the archives -- the american jewish archives for translated sermons that were previously available just in german and putting that on the remembering lincoln site. a series of cards -- images -- came out showing lincoln a -- ascending into heaven. sarah jencks: this is the other side of the coin. we have documentation of the funera

i live in springville new york. , this is a replica of the traveling forges that the artillery and the cavalry would have with them. our basic purpose is to repair items that would break, such as handles and chains. also the farriers would use the forge to re-shoe the horses. i like to tell people our job back here is very similar to a a nascar pit crew. we were the nascar pit crew of the 1860's. working with us would be carpenters that would repair the wagons. the wheelwright's would take care of the --cannon wheels wagon wheels. the coopers, the ones who would work on barrels, fixing and repairing barrels. we also have the leather workers and harness makers. and of course, the blacksmith, whose primary job, as i said is to repair items. the biggest job is the farriers. for example in an artillery battery, we have approximately 140 horses, so there are more horses than men. so, they have a really big job. multiply 140 times four hooves. so, i have heated up this metal, so i'm going to forge it to a point on the anvil using a three-pound hammer. i look for a nice orange color. we come

host: let's hear from springville, indiana, tony.ler: you know, you sound so desperate right now. you are talking about defending jeb bush. you're talking about innuendos. you're using all of these legal terms to confuse people. let me tell you something. the clintons are freaking crooks. that is the reason white obama won. that is why we won. he won the first time and again. bring someone else. they have too many problems. republicans are investigating it. money. this thing and that thing. that is the reason we have all of these problems. it is about time they just disappeared. that is my comment. host: a skeptical viewer and springville. guest: i respect his emotion and his right to an opinion. his substitute for fax, hard facts that he cannot disagree on, cannot challenge me on. he says i'm being legalistic when i use the word fax. people have common sense. he substitutes truth and untruth with the expression "freaking cooks. go host: bill clinton said recently -- on the issue transparency -- he was quoted in "town & country" that

he said this in springville before he went to mask out -- moscow.he said to the people of springfield, look, we spoke plainly and bluntly. we said that freedom is better than totalitarianism. experts told us this kind of candor was dangerous, but far to the contrary. this made clear to the soviets the differences that separated us in the soviets were deeper and wider than missile counts and the number of warheads. a third point -- ideologies drive the balance of power. reagan believed societies were in a contrast with one another both in terms of which produced better economic outcomes for their citizens, and which produced better security and a better world for their citizens. so he saw ideological competition driving arms competition. he believed that arms competition was necessary. in other words, he believed the only way to bring the soviet union into play was to have an arms race with the soviet union. he said the following -- the only sure way to avoid war is to surrender without fighting. the other way is based on the believe that our system

. >> my name is john and i live in springville, new york. this is a replica of the traveling forges that the artillery and calvary would have with them. the basic purpose is to repair items that break, such as handles, chains, also the ferry years would use the forge to re-shoe horses. i like to tell people that the job back here is somewhere to a nascar pit crew. we were the nascar pit crews of the 1860's. working with us would be carpenters that would repair the sides of the wagons. the wheel repairs, people who would work on barrels, and also the harness makers and of course the blacksmith whose primary job was to repair items. as an educator, i think for the younger generation coming up this is the most important thing for them, getting involved in the community and getting involved in a hobby that you can learn. i've been doing this for over 10 years and every day i learn something new about the civil war. young people cannot forget our history. i know a lot of kids, especially in high school, they have trouble with history and after hi

i live in springville, new york. this is a replica of the traveling forges that the artillery and call vary would have with them. our basic purpose is to repair items that break. such as handles and chains. also the feriers would use the forge to reshoe the horses. i like to tell people that our jock back here is very similar to a nascar pit crew. we were the the nascar pit crews of the 1860s. working here with us would be carpenters that would repair the sides of the wagons. the wheels that would take care of all the cannon wheels and wagon wheels. the coopers, who are the people that would work on barrels, fixing and repairing barrels. we also have the leather workers and harness makers and then, of course, the blacksmith, whose primary job, as i said, is to repair items. being an educator i think for the younger generation coming up, it's the most important thing for them is to get involved with your community. get involved with some type of hobby that you can learn you know i've been doing this for over ten years