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The '''Baltimore Plot''' was an alleged conspiracy in late February 1861  to assassinate [[President-elect]] [[Abraham Lincoln]] en route to his [[inauguration]]. The [[Pinkerton National Detective Agency|Pinkerton Agency]] helped foil the plot. A key role was played by [[Allan Pinkerton]] who accompanied and advised the president-elect throughout the journey. Though the truth of the matter remains in doubt, clearly Lincoln and his advisors believed that there was (contracted; show full)

On the afternoon of [[February 23]], Lincoln's scheduled train arrived in Baltimore. The large crowd that gathered at the station to see the President-elect quickly learned that Lincoln had already passed by. Even though the rest of the Lincoln party, including Mrs. Lincoln and the children, had been on this train as originally scheduled, they had already alighted from the train in an unscheduled stop several blocks north of the station. 
<ref>Scharf, John, History of Maryland vol.III, Tradition Press, p.39 </ref>

The newspapers harpooned Lincoln for slipping through Baltimore in the dead of night. [[Adalbert J. Volck]], a Baltimore dentist and caricaturist, was inspired to pen his famous satirical etching, "Passage Through Baltimore." Volck's image of a startled Lincoln in his nightshirt peering out of the side of his rail car as it passes through Baltimore has become part of the Lincoln iconography. 

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* J Hist Dent. 2001 Mar;49(1):17-23.


[[Category:History of the United States (1849–1865)]]
[[Category:Causes of war|American Civil War, Origins of the]]
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