After remaining in a coma for eight hours, Lincoln died at 7:22 in the morning on April 15
Stanton saluted and said, "Now he belongs to the ages." Lincoln's body was placed in a flag-wrapped coffin, which was loaded into a hearse and escorted to the White House by Union soldiers
President Johnson was sworn in later that same day
Two weeks later, Booth, refusing to surrender, was tracked to a farm in Virginia, and was mortally shot by Sergeant Boston Corbett and died on April 26
Secretary of War Stanton had issued orders that Booth be taken alive, so Corbett was initially arrested to be court martialed
After a brief interview, Stanton declared him a patriot and dismissed the charge
Funeral and burial 

The late President lay in state, first in the East Room of the White House, and then in the Capitol Rotunda from April 19 to 21
The caskets containing Lincoln's body and the body of his son Willie traveled for three weeks on the Lincoln Special funeral train
The train followed a circuitous route from Washington D.C
to Springfield, Illinois, stopping at many cities for memorials attended by hundreds of thousands
Many others gathered along the tracks as the train passed with bands, bonfires, and hymn singing or in silent grief
Poet Walt Whitman composed "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" to eulogize him, one of four poems he wrote about Lincoln
African Americans were especially moved; they had lost their "Moses"
In a larger sense, the reaction was in response to the deaths of so many men in the war
Historians emphasized the widespread shock and sorrow, but noted that some Lincoln haters celebrated his death
Lincoln's body was buried at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield and now lies within the Lincoln Tomb
Religious and philosophical beliefs

As a young man, Lincoln was a religious skeptic
He was deeply familiar with the Bible, quoting and praising it
He was private about his position on organized religion and respected the beliefs of others
He never made a clear profession of Christian beliefs
Throughout his public career, Lincoln often quoted Scripture
His three most famous speeches—the House Divided Speech, the Gettysburg Address, and his second inaugural—each contain direct allusions to Providence and quotes from Scripture
In the 1840s, Lincoln subscribed to the Doctrine of Necessity, a belief that the human mind was controlled by a higher power
With the death of his son Edward in 1850 he more frequently expressed a dependence on God
He never joined a church, although he frequently attended First Presbyterian Church with his wife beginning in 1852
The death of his son Willie in February 1862 may have caused him to look toward religion for solace
After Willie's death, he questioned the divine necessity of the war's severity
He wrote at this time that God "could have either saved or destroyed the Union without a human contest
And having begun, He could give the final victory to either side any day
Yet the contest proceeds."

Lincoln did believe in an all-powerful God that shaped events and by 1865 was expressing that belief in major speeches
Lincoln explains therein that the cause, purpose, and result of the war was God's will
On the day Lincoln was assassinated, he reportedly told his wife he desired to visit the Holy Land
Health

Lincoln is believed to have had depression, smallpox, and malaria
He took blue mass pills, which contained mercury, to treat constipation
It is unknown to what extent this may have resulted in mercury poisoning
Several claims have been made that Lincoln's health was declining before the assassination
These are often based on photographs of Lincoln appearing to show weight loss and muscle wasting
It is also suspected that he might have had a rare genetic disease such as Marfan syndrome or multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2B
Legacy

Republican values 
Lincoln's redefinition of republican values has been stressed by historians such as John Patrick Diggins, Harry V
Jaffa, Vernon Burton, Eric Foner, and Herman J
Lincoln called the Declaration of Independence—which emphasized freedom and equality for all—the "sheet anchor" of republicanism beginning in the 1850s
He did this at a time when the Constitution, which "tolerated slavery", was the focus of most political discourse
Diggins notes, "Lincoln presented Americans a theory of history that offers a profound contribution to the theory and destiny of republicanism itself" in the 1860 Cooper Union speech
Instead of focusing on the legality of an argument, he focused on the moral basis of republicanism
His position on war was founded on a legal argument regarding the Constitution as essentially a contract among the states, and all parties must agree to pull out of the contract
Furthermore, it was a national duty to ensure the republic stands in every state
Many soldiers and religious leaders from the north, though, felt the fight for liberty and freedom of slaves was ordained by their moral and religious beliefs
As a Whig activist, Lincoln was a spokesman for business interests, favoring high tariffs, banks, infrastructure improvements, and railroads, in opposition to Jacksonian democrats
Lincoln shared the sympathies that the Jacksonians professed for the common man, but he disagreed with the Jacksonian view that the government should be divorced from economic enterprise
Nevertheless, Lincoln admired Andrew Jackson's steeliness as well as his patriotism