Allan Pinkerton
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Allan Pinkerton was a Scottish-American detective, spy, abolitionist, and cooper best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in the United States and his claim to have obstructed t
c. 1861
Pinkerton on horseback on the Antietam Battlefield in 1862
Pinkerton (left) with Abraham Lincoln and Major General John A. McClernand
Portrait of Allan Pinkerton from Harper's Weekly, 1884
Baltimore Plot
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The Baltimore Plot concerned alleged conspiracies in February 1861 to assassinate President-elect of the United States Abraham Lincoln during a whistle-stop tour en route to his inauguration. Allan Pi
Allan Pinkerton
…spy, abolitionist, and cooper best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in the United States and his claim to have obstructed the Baltimore Plot in 1861, preventing the assassination of then president-elect Abraham Lincoln. During the Civil War, he provided the Union Army – specifically General…
"Passage Through Baltimore". President-elect Lincoln depicted ignominiously hiding in a cattle car by Adalbert J. Volck, 1863.
Abraham Lincoln O 77 matte collodion print