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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}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|1865|4|15|1809|2|12}}
| death_place =[[Washington, D.C.]]
| vicepresident = [[Hannibal Hamlin]] <br>[[Andrew Johnson]]
| signature = Abraham Lincoln Signature.png
}}⏎
The '''Baltimore Plot''' was an alleged conspiracy in late February 1861 to assassinate [[President-elect]] [[Abraham Lincoln]] ''en route'' to his [[inauguration]]. [[Allan Pinkerton]], founder of the [[Pinkerton National Detective Agency]], played a key role by managing Lincoln's security throughout the journey. Though scholars debate whether or not the threat was real, clearly Lincoln and his advisors believed that there was a threat and took actions(contracted; show full)

According to Pinkerton, a captain of the roads reported that there was a plot to stab the 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.
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{{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."

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*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|250px|right|"Passage Through Baltimore". President-elect Lincoln depicted ignominiously hiding in a cattle car by [[Adalbert J. Volck]], 1863.]]
[[Image:Plot-kill-lincoln-1861 Picture2.jpg|right|250px|thumb|"Flight of Abraham", ''[[Harper's Weekly]]'', March 9, 1861.]]
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[[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]]