Identifier: abrahamlincolnhi03nico (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln; a history
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901 Hay, John, 1838-1905
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents -- United States United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York, The Century Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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igation of the Select Com-mittee of Five, though it found no organized plotto seize the capital of the nation, gave abundanttraces of secession conspiracy of various degrees—especially of half-formed military companies, or-ganizing to prevent Northern troops from passingthrough Baltimore to Washington or other pointsin the South. As part and parcel of this scheme,the railroads were to be destroyed and the bridgesburned. The events of April, as they actuallyoccurred, had already been planned, informally atleast, in January. Aside from patriotism, the duty of protectingthe tracks and bridges of the railroad of which hewas president induced Mr. Felton to call to his aidMr. Allan Pinkerton, chief of a Chicago detectiveagency, whom he had before employed on an im-portant matter. He was a man of great skiU and resources (writes Mr.Felton). I furnished him with a few hints and at onceset him on the track with eight assistants. There werethen drilhng upon the line of the railroad some three
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FREDERICK W. SEWARD.

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