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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)
Pinkerton famously clashed with his agent, [[Ward Hill Lamon]], over the President-elect's protection.  Lamon offered Lincoln "a Revolver and a Bowie Knife" but Pinkerton protested that he "would not for the world have it said that Mr. Lincoln had to enter the National Capitol Armed."<ref>Cuthbert, N: ''Lincoln and the Baltimore Plot, 1861,'' page 79.  Huntington Library, 1949.</ref> Lamon would later publicly argue that there was no plot to assas
sinate the president in 1861."It is perfectly manifest that there was no conspiracy, -- no conspiracy of a hundred, of fifty, of twenty, of three; no definite purpose in the heart of even one man to murder Mr. Lincoln in Baltimore."<ref>Lamon, W: ''Life of Abraham Lincoln,'' page  513.  James R. Osgood and Company, 1872.</ref>

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Once Lincoln's rail carriage had safely passed through Baltimore, Pinkerton sent a one-line telegram to the president of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad: "Plums delivered nuts safely."

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The plot – according to Pinkerton, a captain of the roads reported that there was a plot to stab him… The alleged plan was to have several assassins, armed with knives, interspersed throughout the crowd that would gather to greet Lincoln at XXX station. When incoln emerged from the car, which he must do to change trains, at least one of the assassins would be able to get close enough to kill him.


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Under the direction of Pinkerton. Snuck through town at night

Lincoln Apologists. 

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Quote - Source:    Harpers article [http://www.pddoc.com/skedaddle/articles/1861_assassination_plot.htm]
 

Key players in this mystery -<br>
[[Allan Pinkerton]] - Head of the Pinkerton Agency  <br> 
[[Kate Warne]] - female Pinkerton agent who is credited with gathering and supplying information which helped convince Allan Pinkerton that there was a plot to assassinate Lincoln in Baltimore.<br>
[[Ward Hill Lamon]] - Personal friend of Lincoln who accompanied him through Baltimore. <br> 
[[George Proctor Kane]] - Baltimore's Marshall of Police who protected [[Mary Todd Lincoln]] as she passed through the city. He escorted her to the home of John Gittings.<br>
John Gittings - Hosted [[Mary Todd Lincoln]] in Baltimore.<br>

[[Hattie Lawton]] - also known as Hattie H. Lawton <ref>Cuthbert (1949) Lincoln 
and the Baltimore Plot. p. 4.</ref>,  Lawton was part of Pinkerton's Female Detective Bureau, formed in 1860 to ‘worm out secrets’ by means unavailable to male detectives.

[[Ferrandini, Cipriano|Cipriano Ferrandini]] - a hairdresser from [[Corsica]] who [[emigrated]] to the United States, and established himself as the long-time barber and hairdresser in the basement of Barnum's Hotel, in Baltimore. There he practiced his trade from the mid 1850's to his retirement long after the close of the [[American Civil War|Civil War]]. He was accused, but never indicted for plotting to assassinate Abraham Lincoln on [[February 23]], [[1861]]<br>

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Alternate spellings for his name include include:<br>
[[Ferrandini, Cipriano|Siprono Fernandini]] in 1910<br>
[[Ferrandini, Cipriano|Sip Ferrandine]] in 1900<br>
[[Ferrandini, Cipriano|Cipri Ferrandini]] in 1880<br>
[[Ferrandini, Cipriano|Ciprian Ferrendinie]] in 1870<br>
[[Ferrandini, Cipriano|Cipri Ferrandini]] in 1850<br>

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==Date==
President-elect Lincoln evaded possible assassins in Baltimore, and on February 23, 1861, arrived in disguise in Washington, D.C. – From wiki
==Aftermath==
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Whether or not the President-elect was ever in any real, Lincoln's efforts to reach Washington, D.C. safely instantly became a cause celebre across the nation.

When [[The New York Times]] published Joseph Howard, Jr.'s account of the journey, the nation, "rocked with laughter, bringing abuse and ridicule down on Lincoln." <ref>Harper, Robert S. , Lincoln and the Press. MacGraw Hill, New York, 1961 (pg.89)</ref>.

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*Pinkerton, A. (1883). ''The Spy of the Rebellion''; being a true history of the spy system of the United States Army during the late rebellion. Revealing many secrets of the war hitherto not made public. Comp. from official reports prepared for President Lincoln, General McClellan and the provost-marshal-general. New York, G.W. Carleton & Co.

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

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