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((Infobox short story
| name              = The Lincoln Train
| author            = [[Maureen McHugh|Maureen F. McHugh]]
| country           = United States
| language          = English
| series            =
| genre             = [[Science fiction]]
| published_in      = ''[[The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction]]''<br>''[[Alternate Tyrants]]''<br>''[[Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction]]''
| publication_type  = [[Magazine]]
| pub_date          = April 1995
))

'''"The Lincoln Train"''' is an [[alternate history]] [[short story]] published by [[Maureen F. McHugh]], published in April 1995.<ref>((Cite web|url=http://www.uchronia.net/label/mchulincol.html|title=Uchronia: The Lincoln Train|website=www.uchronia.net))</ref> It is collected in volume 31 of the [[Nebula Awards]] anthologies, in ''[[Alternate Tyrants]]'' (1997), and in ''[[Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction]]'' (2005).

==Plot summary==
The story follows Clara Corbett, a teen-aged girl from [[Mississippi]] who is being [[Population transfer|forcibly removed from her home]] following the end of the [[American Civil War]]. Clara is from a slave-owning family, and is boarding the train with her mother when the latter suddenly dies. Travelling alone, Clara is approached by Elizabeth Loudon, and they travel together to [[St. Louis]]. Clara initially fears that Elizabeth is an [[Adventure|adventuress]] who will kidnap her and take her to parts unknown, but she is a [[Quakers|Quaker]] and a member of an [[Underground Railroad]] network that rescues people in Clara's situation. Clara journeys with her, her final destination being her sister Julia's home in [[Tennessee]]. As she tries to offer help to the Quakers, however, Elizabeth grows cold and rebuffs her, stating that "there are no slavers in [their] ranks."

==Alternate history==
The [[point of divergence]] occurs on April 14, 1865, when [[John Wilkes Booth]]'s bullet [[Assassination of Abraham Lincoln|fails to kill]] [[Abraham Lincoln]], but renders him a [[Persistent vegetative state|vegetable]], and incapable of governing the nation. [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]] [[William H. Seward]] is widely believed to be the true national policy maker. Seward instigates a harsh policy of removing all Southerners who had owned [[slaves]] to the western territories in a neo-[[Trail of Tears]], where many of them are left to die of starvation and disease. The brevity of the story, and the limit of its narrative viewpoint to one young girl in a remote province, do not allow this [[alternate history]] to be examined in any great depth.

==Author's comment==
In her letter accompanying the story in volume 31 of the [[Nebula Awards]] collection, Maureen McHugh states that she originally intended to write a story from Lincoln's perspective, but after reading his speeches and letters, felt incapable of "capturing the man on paper," and so kept him "offstage."

==Reception==
"Train" won the 1996 [[Hugo Award for Best Short Story]] and the 1996 [[Locus Award]].  It was also nominated for the 1996 [[Nebula Award for Best Short Story]].<ref>[http://locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/NomLit90.html#3504-1995 The LOCUS Index to SF Awards]</ref>

==Historical inaccuracies==
Several references are made to [[Oklahoma Territory]], but no such entity existed until 1890. The territories that existed in the setting of the story at the time were the [[Indian Territory]] and the [[Oklahoma Panhandle|Unorganized Territory]].

==References==
((Reflist))

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((Hugo Award Best Short Story 1981-2000))
((Locus Award for Best Short Story))
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[[Category:Science fiction short stories]]
[[Category:1995 short stories]]
[[Category:Hugo Award for Best Short Story winning works]]
[[Category:Alternate history short stories]]
[[Category:Works originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction]]
[[Category:American Civil War alternate histories]]
[[Category:Cultural depictions of Abraham Lincoln]]


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