After the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln a special honour was granted him . Koerner was one of the pallbearers who carried the corpse of the president in the state funeral . The other men , all of them Lincoln 's friends from his time in Springfield , Illinois , who conducted the coffin were : In 1867 Koerner was appointed president of the board of trustees that organized the Illinois Soldiers ' Orphans ' Home at Bloomington , and in 1870 he became president of the first board of railroad commissioners of Illinois . A supporter of Ulysses S. Grant 's successful 1868 presidential election bid , in 1872 he became a supporter of the Liberal Republican Party , belonging to the nominating committee which chose Horace Greeley as its ( unsuccessful ) US presidential candidate
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Gustav Koerner