The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War (55 page)

Dennison, Theodore

Dennison, William, Jr.

detective agency

detective career, Pinkerton’s start in

detectives

parallel tracks of Pinkerton and Kennedy

Washington

detectives, Pinkerton

alcohol use by

in Baltimore

Baltimore plot discovered by

disguises of

female

government spies and

Pinkerton’s detectives as

Williams, Charles

DeVoe, Ely

disguises.
See also specific detectives

alcohol and

in Baltimore PW&B case

Lincoln’s Washington trip

Pinkerton’s

Pinkerton’s anonymity concerns

Pinkerton’s stockbroker

Warne’s Mrs. Barley

Dix, Dorothea

Douglas, Stephen A.

debates between Lincoln and

New Jersey won by

as presidential candidate against Lincoln

unity message of

Douglass, Frederick

on Baltimore revised plan

Pinkerton’s admiration of

Dred Scott v. Sanford

Dubois, Jesse

Dundee, Illinois

Dundee Baptist Church

Dunn, George

Dyer, Charles V.

electoral votes

Baltimore plot for count day

Chittenden account of vote count day

Lincoln’s concerns about

results telegram

secessionists on vote count day

vote count safety and

Ellsworth, Elmer

Confederate flag taken down by

crowd control by

death of

duties of

illness of

Lamon and

letter to fiancée

as security point man

as Zouave

Ellsworth’s Avengers

Engels, Friedrich

Eugene Aram
(Bulwer-Lytton)

express service

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Felton, Samuel.
See also
Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad

attack plans on railroad of

bridge keepers of

Hamlin telegram to

leak to newspaper by

Philadelphia meeting with Judd and Pinkerton

Pinkerton hired by

Pinkerton letter to

Pinkerton meeting in Philadelphia

Pinkerton methods and

Pinkerton’s safe arrival message to

Warne involvement in PW&B case

whitewashed bridges of

Female Detective Bureau

female detectives.
See also
Lawton, Hattie; Warne, Kate

Fergus, Robert

Ferrandini, Cypriano

assassination intention of

Davies’s joining band of

government spies and

Pinkerton and

punishment escaped by

reason for not arresting

return and death of

select committee summons of

Fillmore, Millard

flagmen

flag-raising ceremony, in Philadelphia

Fort Moultrie

Fort Sumter

Fort Warren prison

Fountain Hotel

Fox River

Franciscus, George C.

fugitives

Brown, J., as

Underground Railroad name for

Fugitive Slave Act

Garman, Daniel

Gettysburg

Gittings, John S.

Glasgow Universal Suffrage Association

Gould, Charles

Great Western Railroad time card

Greeley, Horace

Lincoln’s election reported by

Lincoln’s safety concern of

pro-Lincoln influence of

threat to Lincoln’s life reported by

war spirit of

Washington route concerns of

Greenhow, Rose O’Neal

grenade rumor

habeas corpus suspension

half horse half alligator

Hamlin, Hannibal

Felton telegrammed by

on train through Baltimore

Hammond, C. G.

Hanscom, Simon

Harper’s Ferry raid

Harper’s Weekly

Harrisburg

arrangements made in

departure from

detour

itinerary

Judd’s emergency meeting in

speech in

Sumner left behind in

Harrisburg-Philadelphia railroad plans

hate mail

Havre de Grace

Hay, John Milton

McClellan viewed by

Nicolay and

Hazzard, George

Maryland plan of

Herndon, William

Lincoln’s parting meeting with

Pinkerton and

Hicks, Thomas H.

bridge tactics and

partisan balancing dilemma of

testifying before select committee

treason charges avoided by

warning letter received by

Hillard, Otis K.

on Baltimore military escort issue

Davies in room with Hughes, A., and

Davies payment to

government spies complaint of

in Lamon’s account

on Lincoln’s route to Washington

Pinkerton on

response to Lincoln’s change of plans

vote count response of

History and Evidence of the Passage of Abraham Lincoln from Harrisburg, Pa., to Washington, D.C., on the 22nd and 23rd of February, 1861
(Pinkerton)

House Divided speech

Howard, Joseph

Hunt, Henry

Hunter, David

injuries in Buffalo

warning letter from

Hutchinson, John H., Pinkerton as stockbroker named

Illinois Central Railroad

Illinois conventions

inaugural address

conclusion

war and

writing and deliberation of

inaugural journey.
See also
Baltimore; Baltimore plan, for revised itinerary; itinerary, for inaugural journey; Lincoln Special; speeches

Albany departure change

alcohol drinking on

announced details of

artillery displays during

Astor House dinner

Buffalo pandemonium

carpetbag containing speech lost on

crowds at stops on

dangers on

Decatur unexpected stop on

departure for Washington

grenade in hotel story

handshaking ordeals

Harrisburg

height contest with coal-heaver

Hillard on coded tracking system

Indianapolis stop and departure

Kentucky stop canceled

Lincoln’s companions on

Lincoln’s jokes during

Lincoln’s ticket for

Lincoln’s wife traveling separately

Lincoln’s young sons’ behavior on

Maryland and

military escort issue

New Jersey stop on

in New York City

planning

Springfield departure

stops and invitations

time card for first day

Washington arrival and first day

Washington companion

Washington G., and

Wood’s timetable

inaugural journey, of Davis, J.

inauguration

cartoon on

ceremonies

Inaugural Procession of 1861

Lincoln’s wait

press in days before

rumor and fears on

secessionist plan to prevent

secessionists and

security

independent committee of safety

Indianapolis

Italian assassins

itinerary, for inaugural journey

early Albany departure

Harrisburg-Baltimore

Hazzard’s plan for Maryland

need to change

as publicized

superintendent of arrangements

Washington, G., birthday figured into

Washington route

Jackson, James W.

Johnson, Waldo P.

Jones, John

Jones, Thomas D. (sculptor)

Juárez, Benito

Judd, Norman

Burns, G. H., giving Pinkerton’s message to

day before Baltimore stop

emergency disclosure meeting called by

Felton-Pinkerton meeting in Philadelphia

Lincoln meeting with Pinkerton and

Lincoln’s response impressing

Pinkerton’s messages to

Pinkerton’s ten for one telegram to

Scott, William H., and

Sumner and

telegrams to

train missed by

Warne and