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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==
[[Image:Pinkerton allan late harpers.jpg|thumb|
3200px|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 property along Lincoln's route through Baltimore(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]]