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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}}
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==Background==
[[Allan Pinkerton]] was commissioned to provide security for president-elect Lincoln on his journey to Washington, D.C., through Baltimore. 

Whether or not there was a plot, Maryland was a [[slave state]], and was considered a border state with strong Southern sympathies and was considered dangerous territory through which to travel for such a controversial politician.

==Lincoln's actions
: appropriate, unnecessary, or cowardly==
[[Image:Pinkerton allan late harpers.jpg|thumb|300px|Portrait of [[Allan Pinkerton]] from ''Harper's Weekly'', 1884]]
On February 11, 1861, President-elect Lincoln boarded an east-bound train in [[Springfield, Illinois]] at the start of a [[Whistle stop train tour|whistle stop tour]] of seventy towns and cities ending with his inauguration in Washington, D.C. Pinkerton had been hired by railroad officials to investigate suspicious activities and acts of destruction of railroad pr(contracted; show full){{U.S. cities in the Civil War}}

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

[[fr:Complot de Baltimore]]