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{{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}}
(contracted; show full) 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 through the downtown area. As a result, the railcars had to be horse-drawn between the President Street and Camden Street stations. 
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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 the President Street station. When Lincoln 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.

{{Infobox biography
| name = [[Cipriano Ferrandini]]
| image = Sun_ferrandini.jpg
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*[[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 1850s 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]].

:Alternative spellings for his name include include:
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::Siprono Fernandini in 1910<br>
::Sip Ferrandine in 1900<br>
::Cipri Ferrandini in 1880<br>
::Ciprian Ferrendinie in 1870<br>
::Cipri Ferrandini in 1850<br>

*[[Allan Pinkerton]] - Head of the Pinkerton Agency  
*[[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.
*[[Ward Hill Lamon]] - personal friend of Lincoln who accompanied him through Baltimore. 
*[[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.
*John Gittings - hosted [[Mary Todd Lincoln]] in Baltimore.
*[[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.

==Aftermath - The public's perception of Lincoln's courage==

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  [[Image:Lincoln in a cattle car.jpg|thumb|300px|left|President-elect Lincoln Ignominiously hiding in a cattle car<br> Adalbert John Volck<br>Etching,1863<br>National Portrait Gallery,<br> Smithsonian Institution]]<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>⏎
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 [[Image:Plot-kill-lincoln-1861 Picture2.jpg|left|550px|frame|Flight of Abraham, Harper's Weekly, March 9, 1861]] 

[[Image:Maclincoln_  harrisburg_  Highland_  fling.jpg|left|700px|thumb|The MacLincoln Harrisburg Highland Fling. <br>Vanity Fair, March 9, 1861]]‎ 
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Many historians believe that Pinkerton’s perception of an assassination plot was incorrect and Lincoln came to regret that he slipped through the city unannounced."<ref>[http://teachingamericanhistorymd.net/000001/000000/000015/html/t15.html teaching American History]</ref> 

(contracted; show full)*[[Kate Warne]] 
*[[Ward Hill Lamon]]
*[[George Proctor Kane]] 
*[[Hattie Lawton]]
*[[Cipriano Ferrandini]]

==References==
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*Cuthbert, Norma Barrett (ed.). ''Lincoln and the Baltimore Plot, 1861.'' (1949) 
*Evitts, William J., ''A Matter of Allegiances- Maryland from 1850-1861''(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,1974)
*Flight of Abraham. Woodcut engraving from Harper's Weekly, New York, [[March 9]], [[1861]].
*Harper, Robert S., Lincoln and the Press. (McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. New York, 1951.)
*Harris, William C. Lincoln's Rise to the Presidency.  (University Press of Kansas, 2000.)
*Holzer, Harold, "Lincoln Seen & Heard." (University Press of Kansas, 2000.)
*Lamon, W: Life of Abraham Lincoln, page 513. (James R. Osgood and Company, 1872.)
*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. (1883)
* J Hist Dent. 2001 Mar;49(1):17-23. (2001)

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