The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War (54 page)

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

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