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  “When the crowd had passed him” Widmer, Lincoln on the Verge, 117; Starr, Lincoln and the Railroads, 175.

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  Whether Lincoln knew it Campbell, “Lincoln Inaugural and Funeral Trains,” 3; Liz Fabian, “Macon Cemetery Visitors Recall Early Millionaire,” New York Times, February 11, 1861.

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  “Friends,” Lincoln began Abraham Lincoln, “Farewell Address at Springfield, Ill., February 11, 1861,” Version C, in Lincoln, Collected Works, 4:190–91.

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  Part IV: Journey

  The Silence Breaks

  a special “Time Card” “A Journey of the President-Elect,” Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/​exhibits/​lincoln/​interactives/​journey-of-the-president-elect/​index.html.

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  “Every station along the road” Lincoln, Collected Works, 4:192–93.

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  “I am leaving you” Donald, Lincoln, 238; Searcher, Lincoln’s Journey, 13.

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  “if you promise not” Searcher, Lincoln’s Journey, 23; Villard, Lincoln on the Eve, 99.

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  “panting outside” Lincoln, Collected Works, 4:192–93.

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  “I bid you an affectionate farewell” Ibid.; Searcher, Lincoln’s Journey, 24.

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  Lincoln had arranged Donald, Lincoln, 270; Searcher, Lincoln’s Journey, 30.

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  Robert, weary of carrying Searcher, Lincoln’s Journey, 30.

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  “The words ‘coercion’ and ‘invasion’ ” Lincoln, Collected Works, 4:192–93; Widmer, Lincoln on the Verge, 134–35.

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  “If Mr. Lincoln fancies” Samuel Wylie Crawford to [A. J. Crawford], February 24, 1861, Crawford Papers.

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  “electrified the true Republicans” Ronald C. White, Jr., The Eloquent President (New York: Random House, 2005), 36.

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  “too many elbows” Widmer, Lincoln on the Verge, 137.

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  “I had never seen Mr. Lincoln” Ibid., 139.

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  “bored and injured virtue” Cottman, “Lincoln in Indianapolis,” 10.

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  “One single stride” Ibid.; Widmer, Lincoln on the Verge, 139.

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  “Had to sleep” Searcher, Lincoln’s Journey, 37; Widmer, Lincoln on the Verge, 145–46.

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  Ohio: “Pimp!”

  “I have not maintained silence” Abraham Lincoln, “Address to the Ohio Legislature, Columbus, Ohio,” February 13, 1861, in Lincoln, Collected Works, 4:205.

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  That day crowds of irate Southerners Widmer, Lincoln on the Verge, 191.

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  “the amount of profanity” Ibid.

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  “lashed to the muzzle” Ibid.

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  “This was the critical day” Strong, Diary, 99.

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  “I had never seen” Adams, Diaries, February 13, 1861.

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  “Old dotard!” Widmer, Lincoln on the Verge, 194.

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  “The votes were counted” Ibid.

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  “read it with his usual equanimity” New York World, February 14, 1861; Widmer, Lincoln on the Verge, 194.

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  By the time of his death Bilansky, “Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency,” 68.

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  He composed a letter Widmer, Lincoln on the Verge, 340.

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  Lincoln: The Time Will Come

  “When I read your inaugural” Holzer, Lincoln President-Elect, 345; Lokken, “Has the Mystery,” 429; Lincoln, Collected Works, 4:249.

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  “The time is not yet” Donald, “We Are Lincoln Men,” 113; Foner, Fiery Trial, 163.

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  “Americans, all, we are not enemies” Lincoln, Collected Works, 4:271; Holzer, Lincoln President-Elect, 346.

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  “Mr. Lincoln! That man” Searcher, Lincoln’s Journey, 95.

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  The actor, John Wilkes Booth Holzer, Lincoln President-Elect, 349; Montgomery Daily Post, February 18, 1861.

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  “Presently two or three” Holzer, Lincoln President-Elect, 357.

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  “a capital view” Widmer, Lincoln on the Verge, 335.

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  “very pale and fatigued” Ibid., 333.

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  “I followed the servant” Ibid., 340.

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  “Remember, this is the last chance” New York Herald, March 5, 1860; Starr, Lincoln and the Railroads, 188.

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  “The Great Lincoln Turkey” New York World, February 21, 1861.

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  That night Lincoln took in Searcher, Lincoln’s Journey, 208; Starr, Lincoln and the Railroads, 188.

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  “I fear we shall have” Widmer, Lincoln on the Verge, 369–70.

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  Washington and Philadelphia: Dual Warning

  “I don’t know what” Searcher, Lincoln’s Journey, 258.

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  Bookstaver was so unsettled Goodwin, Team of Rivals, 311; Searcher, Lincoln’s Journey, 258.

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  “I was in the gallery” Goodwin, Team of Rivals, 311; Seward, Seward at Washington, 508.

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  “The train, a tedious one” Seward, Seward at Washington, 509.

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  “Then, I think I had better take” Ibid.

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  “so soon as convenient” Stashower, “Unsuccessful Plot.”

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  “During the entire interview” Ibid.; Cuthbert, Lincoln and the Baltimore Plot, 64.

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  “I didn’t like that” The biographer here was Benson J. Lossing, a widely read historian and illustrator, and author of the three-volume Pictorial History of the Civil War, published in 1866. Lossing’s interview with Lincoln appears in volume 1, pp. 279–80. See also Searcher, Lincoln’s Journey, 250.

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  Meanwhile, in Lincoln’s bedroom Goodwin, Team of Rivals, 311; Seward, Seward at Washington, 508; Lokken, “Has the Mystery,” 431.

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  “I could not but notice” Seward, Seward at Washington, 509.

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  “A New York detective officer” Cuthbert, Lincoln and the Baltimore Plot, 131–32; Hay and Nicolay, Abraham Lincoln, 312; Searcher, Lincoln’s Journey, 258; Seward, Seward at Washington, 509.

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  “Although its contents” Seward, Seward at Washington, 509.

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  “Did you hear anything” Ibid., 510.

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  Philadelphia: Change of Plan

  “The President elect had enjoyed” Philadelphia North American and United States Gazette, February 23, 1861. For an excellent overview of Lincoln’s journey, curated with precise locations, excerpts of news reports, and images, see “The Journey of the President-Elect,” Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/​exhibits/​lincoln/​interactives/​journey-of-the-president-elect/​index.html.

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  “I have never had a feeling” Lincoln, Collected Works, 4:240–41, 241n3.

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  “nothing more or less than” Widmer, Lincoln on the Verge, 399.

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  “Unless there are some” Donald, Lincoln, 278.

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  Fort Sumter: Salute

  “If we get out of this place” Samual Wylie Crawford to [A. J. Crawford], February 21, 1861, Crawford Papers.

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  “These were loaded” Samuel Wylie Crawford to [A. J. Crawford], February 24, 1861, Crawford Papers.

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  “The insolent wretch!” Chesnut, Private Mary Chesnut, 11.

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  Washington: One Very Dark Night

  “Mr. L. brought her out” Lincoln, Collected Works, 4:242.

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  “Tomorrow we enter slave territory” Widmer, Lincoln on the Verge, 403.

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  “I shall not feel” Frances Seward to William Seward, February 22, 1861, Seward Project.

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  called him a “scoundrel” New York Times, February 22, 1861; “A Near Fatal Attack on Charles H. Van Wyck of New York,” Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives.

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  “a pocket memorandum book” New York Times, February 23, 1861.

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  “One man against three,” Ibid.

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  Washington: The Man in the Felt Hat

  a “kossuth” hat See Michael McAfee, “The Hungarian Connection to the Union Army’s Official Hat,” Military Images, December 2, 2015, www.militaryimagesmagazine-digital.com/​2015/​12/​02/​uniforms-history-winter-2016/.

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  “in all directions” Cuthbert, Lincoln and the Baltimore Plot, 73, 73n, 74.

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  “a sick friend and party” Ibid., 14.

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  “Mr. Lincoln is very homely” Ibid., 81.

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  The train left Baltimore While Lincoln and Pinkerton waited for the train to depart, they heard a night watchman at the station attempt to awaken a ticket agent by pounding on a wall adjacent to the sleeping car, and shouting, “Captain, it’s four o’clock.” This went on for twenty minutes, with the watchman never altering the time—prompting much laughter and comment from Lincoln. “Mr. Lincoln appeared to enjoy it very much and made several witty remarks showing that he was as full of fun as ever,” Pinkerton wrote in his official report for the night. Cuthbert, Lincoln and the Baltimore Plot, 81.

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  “Abe,” the man said Ibid., 82.

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  “I hit the gentleman” Ibid.; Widmer, Lincoln on the Verge, 428.

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  “I planted myself behind” Searcher, Lincoln’s Journey, 261.

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  “much out of breath” Ibid., 262; Cuthbert, Lincoln and the Baltimore Plot, 148–49.

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  “that hypocrite Seward” Donald, “We Are Lincoln Men,” 155; Stahr, Seward, 266, 303, 356.

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  “spent a considerable portion” Welles, Civil War Diary, 46, 49.

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  “I am a chief reduced” Ibid., 159; Johnson, Lincoln’s First Crisis, 387n69.

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  “Disappointment!” he snapped Donald, “We Are Lincoln Men,” 147.

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  “could more justly be called” Brownstein, “Willard Hotel,” 6; Gunderson, “William C. Rives,” 465.

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  “We began to doubt” Brownstein, “Willard Hotel,” 4.

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  “The principal object” Ibid.

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  “Committee on Arrangements” Morison, “Peace Convention,” 61–62; Searcher, Lincoln’s Journey, 265.

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  “Plums has Nuts” Cuthbert, Lincoln and the Baltimore Plot, 84; Searcher, Lincoln’s Journey, 263; Widmer, Lincoln on the Verge, 429.

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  “treachery to the flag of his country” General Orders, No. 5, WOTR, 1:597.

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  Washington: A Rumor of Plaid

  “The whole city” New York Times, February 26, 1861.

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  “wore a Scotch plaid cap” New York Times, February 25, 1861.

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  “Lincoln flew through Baltimore” Chesnut, Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, 24.

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  “Everybody here is disgusted” Holzer, Lincoln President-Elect, 397.

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  “when we have reached a point” Ibid., 398; Lokken, “Has the Mystery,” 419.

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  “It’s to be hoped” Strong, Diary, 102.

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  “It is perfectly manifest” Cuthbert, Lincoln and the Baltimore Plot, xvii, 86; Holzer, Lincoln President-Elect, 404–5; Searcher, Lincoln’s Journey, 263.

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  “brainless egotistical fool” Cuthbert, Lincoln and the Baltimore Plot, xvii, 86; Holzer, Lincoln President-Elect, 404–5; Searcher, Lincoln’s Journey, 263.

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  “There is no confirmation” Bilansky, “Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency,” 80.

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  “witnessed great crowds” Cuthbert, Lincoln and the Baltimore Plot, 135.

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  “smell southern gunpowder” New York Times, February 18, 1861.

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  Washington: The Old Gentlemen Pay a Call