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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 [[First inauguration of Abraham Lincoln|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 th(contracted; show full)-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. Pinkerton became convinced that a plot existed to ambush Lincoln's carriage between the Calvert Street Station of the 
[[Northern Central Railway]]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 persuade Lincoln to cancel his stop at [[Harrisburg]], [[Pennsylvania]], and to proceed secretly straight through Baltimore, but Lincoln insisted upon keeping to his schedule.

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