The Baltimore Plot
by Kline, Michael J.Edition: 2nd
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-11-17
Publisher(s): Westholme Pub Llc
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Summary
In January 1861, Abraham Lincoln¿s private train steamed from Illinois to Washington, D.C., where he would be inaugurated as the sixteenth President. However, in Baltimore, a group of Confederate conspirators had formed a plot to assassinate the President-in-waiting when his train made its final stop before Washington. When legendary detective Allan Pinkerton got wind of the plot, he advised Lincoln to remain hidden for the remainder of the journey while he conducted an investigation. However, the case was never brought to trial, leading Lincoln to be ridiculed in the press for cowardice because of which, he vowed never to hide in public again. A promise which, four years later when he sat in full view in the balcony of Ford¿s Theatre, would cost him his life.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. ix |
| Motive, Means, and Opportunity | p. 1 |
| Ace of hearts | p. 20 |
| The Lincoln Special | p. 36 |
| The Stock Broker | p. 66 |
| A Message of Importance | p. 78 |
| The Electoral College | p. 90 |
| Crossing the River | p. 104 |
| Hotel Fountain | p. 115 |
| Actors | p. 131 |
| The Vast and Silent Crowd | p. 147 |
| Facts and Phantoms | p. 164 |
| The Baltimore Plot | p. 189 |
| Pinkerton's Plan | p. 201 |
| The Kossuth Hat | p. 217 |
| Night Train | p. 240 |
| An Unexpected Arrival | p. 257 |
| The Peace Conference | p. 273 |
| The Palmetto Cockade | p. 290 |
| A Shirt-Tail Plot | p. 306 |
| Inauguration Day | p. 323 |
| Defense and Prosecution | p. 337 |
| The Assassin | p. 367 |
| Notes | p. 397 |
| Bibliography | p. 491 |
| Index | p. 503 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 519 |
| Maps and Chart | |
| The Route of President Lincoln's Inaugural Train | p. 48 |
| Baltimore in 1861 | p. 126 |
| The Conpirators Web | p. 369 |
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