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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)

Feelings were running high in the other direction as well, and the U.S. government was not about to take risks.  Later the same year, many civil liberties were effectively suspended.  Pinkerton, in particular, was a very careful man.<!--cite his work for the army, and perhaps his habitual over-estimation of Confed. troop strength?-->

==Lincoln's actions==
[[Image:Pinkerton allan late harpers.jpg|thumb|
200pxleft|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. Pi(contracted; show full) a brief difficulty with the time machine that caused the showing of (an enactment of) the 1865 shooting of Lincoln at Ford's Theatre. The episode depicts a bomb being used in the 1861 Baltimore plot, and has the attempt being plotted by Abolitionists who hope to plunge the nation into a war in which slavery will be ended; the plotters are apparent sympathizers with John Brown, who had already been hanged. (The Civil War actually began in April 1861, with the attack on Fort Sumter.)

==See also==
*[[A
braham Lincoln assassination]]
*[[American Civil War spies]]
*[[Allan Pinkerton]]
*[[Charles Van Wyck]]
*[[Cipriano Ferrandini]]
*[[George Proctor Kane]]
*[[Hattie Lawton]]
*[[Kate Warnemerican Civil War spies]]
*[[Assassination of Abraham Lincoln]]
*[[Charles Van Wyck]]
*[[List of United States Ppresidential assassination attempts]]
*[[Ward Hill Lamon and plots]]

==References==
===Notes===

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===Bibliography===
*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)
*Internet Movie Database

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