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