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One of America’s greatest president was Abraham Lincoln who was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre on the 15th of April, 1865. One would have thought such a great personality’s body would be treated with the utmost respect but in a way, Abraham Lincoln’s body was one of the first in America to be embalmed.
After his assassination, his body was treated with chemicals, and people came all the way across the country to come and have a look at it and pay their last respect’s. The embalming of Lincoln drastically changed how people thought about death and funeral’s and many were confronted by the idea that
death didn’t change anything and decided embalming was the best way to preserve a dead body and this process soon became a normal and lucrative part of American death rites.
The pre-civil war Americans had very simple ways of dealing with their dead by washing them, dressing them up in something nice, and lighting some candles around the body in an attempt to hide the inevitable stink.
Sometimes friends and family would stop by to say farewell one last time. At the cemetery, the body would be lowered into the ground in a simple wooden box and people would once again bade them farewell and a persons journey on this earth was over.
As the need for embalming heightened, more and more men (it was basically only men at that time) became involved and every embalmer was on the up and up.
Families who were so desperate to get their loved ones buried at home had to pay higher sums for a quicker job. The military offered money for embalmed corpses; thirty dollars for a soldier, eighty dollars for an officer, or nine hundred to two thousand five hundred dollars for a higher position) so it wasn’t unusual to see embalmers fighting for dead bodies after battles.
When the body of Lincoln was moved around and made it to Manhattan, discoloration had set in and he appeared shrunken. Even in that situation, his body was still the most well-preserved corpse many people had ever seen.
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