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Feb 11, 1861 was cloudy, and cool. A light rainfall was dropping. President-elect Abraham Lincoln and his family boarded the coach at the Great European Depot in Springfield, Illinois. Their vacation spot was Washington, DC, where Lincoln was to be inaugurated on March 4th. On the way, the Presidential coach stopped in various cities and cities to permit Lincoln to meet the people who elected him. In Baltimore, Detective Allan Pinkerton was investigating an alleged story to blow up bridges and ferries along the route of the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad. On Feb 10th, his operatives captured wind of any story to assassinate the President-elect on his passage through Baltimore. Pinkerton accepted the challenge, and determined to uncover the facts of the story, and get the information to Lincoln before it was too late. At the same time, Washington City was rife with rumors. Stories circulated that individuals were heading to up end the railroad tracks, blow up the public buildings, seize the town, kidnap Chief executive Buchanan, and eliminate President-elect Lincoln. Previously in Feb the Committee of Five assembled to research the rumors, and get to the bottom from it. Basic Winfield Scott was costed with defending the Capital city, and had for several calendar months been receiving words loaded with rumors of conspiracies, and plots about assassination endeavors against Lincoln, Buchanan, and himself. Due to these threats, Basic Scott, together, with Senator William H. Seward, asked New York Police force Superintendent John A. Kennedy to research the situation in Baltimore, and determine whether it was safe for Lincoln to pass through. With significantly less than 12 days and nights until Lincoln was scheduled to pass through Baltimore, the race was on, to uncover the assassins. Learn the exciting information on the Baltimore Plot, and decide for yourself whether Lincoln's life was ever actually in peril.
