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Authors: Daniel Stashower
Searcher, Victor.
Lincoln’s Journey to Greatness: A Factual Account of the Twelve-Day Inaugural Trip.
Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., 1960.
Seward, Frederick W.
Seward at Washington as Senator and Secretary of State.
New York: Derby and Miller, 1891.
Starr, John W., Jr.
Lincoln and the Railroads: A Biographical Study.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1927.
Tiffany, Francis.
The Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1892.
Villard, Henry.
Lincoln on the Eve of ’61: A Journalist’s Story.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941.
Walling, George W.
Recollections of a New York City Chief of Police.
New Jersey: Patterson Smith Reprint Series, 1972.
Ward, William Hayes.
Abraham Lincoln: Tributes from His Associates; Reminiscences of Soldiers, Statesmen and Citizens.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1895.
Wilson, Dorothy Clark.
Stranger and Traveler: The Story of Dorothea Dix, American Reformer.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1975.
Wilson, Douglas L., and Rodney O. Davis.
Herndon’s Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements About Abraham Lincoln.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998.
Wilson, Rufus Rockwell.
Lincoln in Caricature.
New York: Horizon Press, 1953.
Periodicals and Newspapers
The Abraham Lincoln Quarterly; The Atlas & Argus;
Baltimore Sun; Boston Commonwealth;
Bulletin of the Abraham Lincoln Association;
Century Magazine; Charleston Mercury; Civil War Times; Cleveland Plain Dealer; Douglass’ Monthly; Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper; Harper’s New Monthly Magazine; Maryland Historical Magazine; McClure’s Magazine; National Republic; New York Daily Graphic; New York Herald; New York Independent; New York Times; New-York Tribune: New York World; North American Review; Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies; Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography; Philadelphia Inquirer; Transactions and Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society;
True Magazine;
Wisconsin Magazine of History.
Further information and source notes can be found at the author’s Web site:
www.stashower.com
INDEX
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Abolitionist Party
Adams, Charles Francis
Adams Express Company
robbery
Albany
alcohol
during inaugural journey
in undercover work
Alexandria, troops in
Allen, E. J., Pinkerton as
American Anti-Slavery Society
American Telegraph Company
Anderson, Robert
Anthony, Susan B.
Arnold, Samuel
arrests
federal
Maryland
Union spy
artillery displays, during inaugural journey
assassination conspiracy.
See also
Baltimore plan, for revised itinerary; Baltimore plot; Ferrandini, Cypriano
backup plans for
ballot selection of assassin
Booth’s involvement in
Chittenden’s Baltimore meeting revealing
Hay’s fear of
Hunter’s letter of warning about
league of assassins
Lincoln’s responses to
Luckett’s revelations to Pinkerton
parallel investigations of
Pinkerton-Ferrandini meeting
Pinkerton’s discovery of
planned location for
plotters’ response to Lincoln’s secret maneuver
rewards for murder of president-elect
Ruscelli’s revelations
scale of
secessionists and
Seward, W. H., and
suspects
assassination of Ellsworth
assassination of Lincoln
Astor House
Lincoln dinner at
structure and exterior
Warne’s meetings at
Baker, Edward D.
Baltimore
Buchanan in
close of operations in
editorial on Lincoln’s imminent arrival
Hamlins’ stop in
house of prostitution in
Kane’s police force in
Lincoln party train ride to
mob town image of
Pinkerton detectives in
Pinkerton in
Pinkerton with Lincoln in
Pinkerton’s arrival in
planning for dangers in
police support denied by Kane
Republican procession staged in
return to
rioting in
secessionists
troops sent from Washington to
war spirit in
Washington access through
Baltimore plan, for revised itinerary
Baltimore leg of journey
boarding Baltimore-bound train
Camden Street Station
carriage ride to PW&B
as cowardice
danger points on PW&B
explanations advanced for
Harrisburg-Philadelphia railroad plans
Lincoln as invalid in
Lincoln’s disguise
Lincoln’s Harrisburg departure
Lincoln’s prestige hurt by
Lincoln’s wife informed of
perceptions of
Philadelphia leg of journey
Pinkerton’s
Pinkerton’s Philadelphia phase in
Pinkerton’s view of in later years
in press
Washington itinerary
Baltimore plot
bridge-burning warning letter
coded tracking system
controversy surrounding
dilemmas in assessing
discovery by operatives
for electoral vote count day
Lincoln’s arrival in Washington and
newspapers and
Pinkerton’s pamphlet on
resurgence of interest in
select committee inquiry into
social class and
for Washington capture
Baltimore Plug-Uglies
Baltimore Railroad
Baltimore Sun
Washington departure announced in
Bangs, George H. (Pinkerton detective)
Barnum, P. T.
Barnum’s Hotel
barrel-making.
See
coopering trade
Barr’s Saloon
Bates House speech
Bedell, Grace
Black, Edward
Black Laws
Blaine, James G.
Bleeding Kansas crisis
bodyguards
Bogus Island
Bookstaver, David
Booth, John Wilkes
Border Ruffians
border states
Bosworth, Increase
Bowen, Henry C.
Brady’s studio in Washington, Lincoln in
Breckenridge, John C.
bridges
bridge keepers
warning letter about burning of
whitewashed
Brown, George (Baltimore mayor)
arrest of Kane and
Brown, John
controversial figure of
execution of
fugitive status of
Pinkerton helping
Buchanan, James (“The Old Public Functionary”)
in Baltimore
Brown, G., arrest ordered by
Fort Moultrie submission stance of
Lincoln and
select committee authorized by
Buffalo, New York
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward
Burns, George H.
message to Judd sent through
Burns, Robert
Butler, Benjamin
Cadwallerder, Thomas
Cady, Elizabeth
Calvert Street depot
Camden Street Station
Cameron, Simon
carpetbag incident
carriage ride, to PW&B
Cartwright, Peter
Chartist movement
Chase, Salmon P.
Chicago
1850s expansion of
fire of 1871
Pinkerton move to
Chicago Judiciary Convention
Chittenden, Lucius
Baltimore meeting with assassin suspect
on Lincoln’s disguise
on Peace Convention delegates
Pinkerton and
on sentiments towards Lincoln
Washburne informed by
Church, William
cigar gift, to Black
Cincinnati stop
Circular of Instructions
Cleveland
Columbus
Committee of Arrangements
Confederacy
convention in Montgomery
flag of
president of
Continental Hotel
coopering trade
Coopers’ Union
corruption
counterfeiting
counterfeiting gangs
Pinkerton and
coup d’etat,
Dix revealing planned
Craig, John
Curtin, Andrew
Cuyler, Theodore
Davies, Harry (Pinkerton detective)
ballot drawn by
ballot plan revealed to
on day of plan
Ferrandini band joined by
Hillard paid by
Hillard’s revelation to
Davis, David
Davis, Jefferson
as Confederacy president
inaugural journey of
Lincoln and
Union spies and
Decatur incident
Declaration of Independence
decoy
package
Warne’s
Democratic party
split in