Before George H.W. Bush, the last president to travel home for burial by train by Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1969. Ike's train lefft Washington, D.C, at 6 p.m. on March 31 and arrived at Union Terminal, ...

At 9:53 p.m. on March 31, 1969, the funeral train bearing the body of President Dwight D. Eisenhower pulled into the Chesapeake & Ohio station in Charlottesville and was met by a crowd of nearly 3,000 ...

This flag, known as the Presidential Flag, accompanied President Eisenhower's coffin on its funeral procession in 1969. It was used at the head of the casket when it lay at the Washington National ...