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

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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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