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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)been hired by railroad officials to investigate suspicious activities and acts of destruction of railroad property along Lincoln's route through Baltimore. Pinkerton became convinced that a plot existed to ambush Lincoln's carriage between the Calvert Street Station of the Northern Central and the Camden Street Station of the [[Baltimore and Ohio Railroad]]. This opportunity would present itself during the President-elect's passage through Baltimore on February 23, 1861.  Pinkerton tried to 
convincpersuade Lincoln to cancel his stop at [[Harrisburg]], [[Pennsylvania]], and to proceed secretly straight through Baltimore, but Lincoln insisted upon keeping to his schedule. 

Pinkerton famously clashed with Lincoln’s friend and escort, [[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>

On the evening of February 22 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 resultTherefore, the railcars had to be horse-drawn between the President Street and Camden Street stations. 

According to Pinkerton, a captain of the roads reported that there was a plot to stab himthe President-elect.  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 Person
| name = [[Cipriano Ferrandini]]
| image = Sun_ferrandini.jpg
| caption =  Cipriano Ferrandini
| birth_date = 1823
| birth_place = [[Corsica]]
| death_date = 1910 (Age 87)
| death_place = [[Baltimore]]
| occupation = Hairdresser, Southern Sympathizer, alleged conspirator
}}

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." 

On the afternoon of February 23, Lincoln's scheduled train arrived in Baltimore. The large crowd that gathered at the station to see the President-elect quickly learned that Lincoln had already passed by. Even though the rest of the Lincoln party, including [[Mary Todd Lincoln|Mrs. Lincoln]] and the children, had been on this train as originally scheduled, they had already alighted from the train in an unscheduled stop several blocks north of the President Street station.  <ref>Scharf, John, History of Maryland vol.III, Tradition Press, p.39 </ref><ref>{{Cite news 
  | last = Arnold
  | first = Isaac H.
  | coauthors = 
  | title = The Baltimore Plot To Assassinate Abraham Lincoln.
  | newspaper = Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 37
  | location = New York
  | pages = 123–128
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