The Baltimore Plot: The First Conspiracy to Assassinate Abraham Lincoln

On February 11, 1861, the "Lincoln Special" - Abraham Lincoln's private train—began its journey from Springfield, Illinois, to the City of Washington, carrying the president-elect to his inauguration as the sixteenth president of the United States. As Lincoln made his way east, America's original private detective, Allan Pinkerton, and a separate operation by New York City detectives, uncovered startling evidence of a conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln during his next-to-last stop in Baltimore…