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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)h it also depicts 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.)


==Bibliography==
Double Death: The True Story of Pryce Lewis, the Civil War's Most Daring Spy by Gavin Mortimer [Walker 2010]⏎
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==See also==
*[[American Civil War spies]]
*[[Assassination of Abraham Lincoln]]
*[[Charles Van Wyck]]
*[[List of United States presidential assassination attempts and plots]]

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

[[fr:Complot de Baltimore]]