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Portal:Baltimore Plot
{{Infobox_President 
| name = [[Abraham Lincoln]]
| image = Abraham Lincoln head on shoulders photo portrait.jpg
| order = 16th [[President of the United States]]
| term_start = [[March 4]], [[1861]] 
| term_end = [[April 15]], [[1865]]
| successor = [[Andrew Johnson]]
| birth_date = {{birth date|1809|2|12|mf=y}}
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On the evening of [[22 February]] telegraph lines to Baltimore were cut to prevent communications from passing between potential conspirators in Pennsylvania and Maryland. Meanwhile, Lincoln left Harrisburg on a special train and arrived secretly in Baltimore in the middle of the night. The most dangerous link in the journey was in Baltimore where a city ordinance prohibited night-time rail travel th
rough the downtown area. As a result, the railcars had to be horse-drawn between the President Street and Camden Street stations. <br>

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 the President Street station. When Lincoln emerged from the car, which he must do to change trains, at least one of the assassins (contracted; show full)[[Category:History of the United States (1849–1865)]]
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