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In February 1861, the Pinkerton agent, posing as the disguised president-elect's sister and caregiver, safely escorted him to Baltimore ....

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The Thwarted Plot to Kill Lincoln on the Streets of Baltimore

Cipriano Ferrandini addresses other members of the Baltimore plot. Image originally printed in
From The Spy of the Rebellion, by Allan Pinkerton, 1883. (Source: Maryland State Archives)
Abraham Lincoln’s election to the presidency on November 6, 1860, was the catalyst for vehement anger in the South, where the wave of secession had already begun to stir. The anger at the president-elect became so great that several conspirators vowed he would never reach the capitol to be inaugurated.
By many accounts, Lincoln was aware but unmoved by the threats that rose around him in early 1861 as he prepared to relocate from his home in Springfield, Illinois to the White House. He planned a grand 2,000-mile whistle-stop tour that would take his train through seventy cities and towns on the way to his inauguration. He was sure to be greeted by thousands of well-wishers, but a more sinister element was also gathering. ....

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Kate Warne, America's first female private detective, protected Lincoln from an assassination plot in 1861

Kate Warne, America’s first female private investigator, played a crucial role in shielding Lincoln from assassins on his way to his first inauguration in 1861. ....

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The woman who helped protect Lincoln from the men who tried to kill him in 1861

The woman who helped protect Lincoln from the men who tried to kill him in 1861
Petula Dvorak
Because no one suspected that the beguiling woman mingling in Alabama social circles was a private eye hunting a master embezzler.
The secessionists flirting and gossiping with the lovely Mrs. Cherry at Baltimore galas didn t worry about tipping off the charming Southern belle to their assassination plot.
And while a city bristling with weapons, rumors, assassins, spies and officers anxiously waited for the heavily guarded President-elect Abraham Lincoln to pass through Baltimore on the way to his 1861 inauguration - and possibly straight into a trap - they ignored the young widow accompanying her unusually tall, invalid brother in a sleeping berth headed to Washington. ....

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Biden Isn't the First President to Have to Change Tracks en Route to Inauguration

1/19/2021
Biden Isn t the First President to Have to Change Tracks en Route to Inauguration
Historians/History
by Jeff Rogg
Jeff Rogg is a postdoctoral fellow in the National Security Affairs Department at the U.S. Naval War College. Jeff received his PhD in history from The Ohio State University in December 2020. His dissertation, The Spy and the State
, is a complete history of American intelligence from the Revolutionary War to the present. The views in this article are the author’s own and do not represent the views of the U.S. government, Department of the Navy, or U.S. Naval War College. Twitter: @ThespyThestate ....

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