The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War (58 page)

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parallel tracks of Pinkerton and government

Springfield

Lincoln urged to leave early from
Lincoln’s departure from
Lincoln’s last days in
warnings received by Lincoln in

The Spy of the Rebellion
(Pinkerton)

Stanton, Edwin

State House policy

Stearns, George

Stone, Charles P.

Sumner, Edwin Vose (“Bullhead”)

as left behind in Harrisburg

Superintendent of Arrangements

Kennedy letter to
timetable made by

Surratt, Mary

Taney, Roger B.

telegraph communications

electoral vote results sent through
Pinkerton’s telegrams to Judd
word-substitution ciphers in

Thirteenth Amendment

time card, Great Western Railroad

Times

timetable, Wood’s

train robberies

Travis, Annette

troops

in Alexandria
Pinkerton’s estimate of enemy
sent to Baltimore

Tyler, John

undercover work.
See also
disguises;
specific detectives

alcohol in
Pinkerton’s methods
Walling’s dispatch of detectives

Underground Railroad

fugitives in
name of
Pinkerton’s wife assisting
Pinkerton’s work on
terminology and positions in

Union.
See also
Coopers’ Union; secession

arrested spies of
House Divided speech
Kansas entry debate
sentiment toward maintaining

United States Postal Service

Verdi, Giuseppe

Vidocq, Eugène-François

Villard, Henry

on Lincoln’s wife separate departure

Vincent, Henry

violence

1856 election

vote count.
See
electoral votes

Wallace, William S.

Walling, George, W.

war

Baltimore spirit of
inaugural address and

Warne, Kate

Astor House meetings of
Baltimore plan for
death of
in Felton-PW&B case
Judd and
Judd and Sanford messages given to
Lincoln as invalid brother of
in Maroney case
Mrs. Barley disguise of
on Pinkerton’s exhaustion
Pinkerton’s hiring of
PW&B decoy of
Sanford and
secrecy imperative for
as superintendent
Webster’s message sewn in by

Washburne, Elihu B.

Pinkerton’s punching of
Seward, W., and

Washington.
See also
inaugural journey

Baltimore plot to capture
Brady studio in
departure for
detectives from
itinerary
Kennedy commissioned by
Lincoln’s arrival and first day in
Lincoln’s companion for trip to
Lincoln’s departure from
Peace Convention in
railroad concerns
select committee in
southern takeover of, plan for
troops sent to Baltimore from

Washington, George

Webster, Timothy (Pinkerton detective)

death of
Kennedy’s agents aided by
Lawton and
message from Pinkerton to Lincoln via
in Perrymansville
Pinkerton’s praise of
plot overheard by
undercover membership in local military

Weed, Thurlow

Western Citizen

Westfield, New York

whistle, pig-tail

White, John H. (Pinkerton operative)

White House

Confederate flag in view of
unannounced call at

whitewashed bridges

Whitman, Walt

Whitney, Henry Clay

Wide Awakes

Wigwam

Willard’s Hotel

Williams, Charles

Wisner, M. L. (pastor)

Wood, Fernando

Wood, William S. (Superintendent of Arrangements)

Kennedy letter to
timetables of

Wynne, Andrew

Yates, Richard

Zouave Cadets

 

 

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and the Invention of Murder

 

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Daniel Stashower is an acclaimed biographer and narrative historian, and winner of the Edgar, Agatha, and Anthony Awards and the Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellowship in Detective Fiction. His work has appeared in
The New York Times, The Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, AARP The Magazine,
and
National Geographic Traveler
as well as other publications.

 

 

THE HOUR OF PERIL
. Copyright © 2013 by Daniel Stashower. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

www.stmartins.com

The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Stashower, Daniel.

     The hour of peril: the secret plot to murder Lincoln before the Civil War / Daniel Stashower.—1st edition.

            p. cm.

     Includes bibliographical references.

     ISBN 978-0-312-60022-8 (hardcover)

     ISBN 978-1-250-02332-2 (e-book)

   1.  Lincoln, Abraham, 1809–1865—Assassination attempt, 1861.   2.  Presidents—Assassination attempts—United States.   3.  Baltimore (Md.)—History—Civil War, 1861–1865.   I.  Title.

     E457.4.S85 2013

     973.7092—dc23

2012042103

First Edition: February 2013

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