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John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History, Chapter 12. (search)
ing Mr. Lincoln and a portion of his party through Baltimore by a night train without previous notice. The seriousness of this information was doubled by the fact that Mr. Lincoln had, that same day, held an interview with a prominent Chicago detective who had been for some weeks employed by the president of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore railway to investigate the danger to their property and trains from the Baltimore secessionists. The investigations of this detective, a Mr. Pinkerton, had been carried on without the knowledge of the New York detective, and he reported not identical, but almost similar, conditions of insurrectionary feeling and danger, and recommended the same precaution. Mr. Lincoln very earnestly debated the situation with his intimate personal friend, Hon. N. B. Judd of Chicago, perhaps the most active and influential member of his suite, who advised him to proceed to Washington that same evening on the eleven-o'clock train. I cannot go to-ni
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 11: the Montgomery Convention.--treason of General Twiggs.--Lincoln and Buchanan at the Capital. (search)
ental Hotel. Mr. Judd, a warm personal friend from Chicago, sent for me to come to his room. I went, and found there Mr. Pinkerton, a skillful police detective, also from Chicago, who had been employed for some days in Baltimore, watching or searching for suspicious persons there. Pinkerton informed me that a plan had been laid for my assassination, the exact time when I expected to go through Baltimore being publicly known. He was well informed as to the plan, but did not know that the contt, to inform me that their detectives in Baltimore had discovered a plot there to assassinate me. They knew nothing of Pinkerton's movements. I now believed such a plot to be in existence. The next morning I raised the flag over Independence Hanobody knew, and Mr. Judd. Sumner and Hunter felt hurt. We went back to Philadelphia and found a message there from Pinkerton (who had returned to Baltimore), that the conspirators had held their final meeting that evening, and it was doubtful w
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 5: military and naval operations on the coast of South Carolina.--military operations on the line of the Potomac River. (search)
note; he listened attentively to what I said, and asked me to write down my information and suggestions, and then, taking the paper I had written, he hastily left. The note I wrote was what Mr. Frederick Seward carried to Mr. Lincoln in Philadelphia. Mr. Lincoln has stated that it was this note which induced him to change his journey as he did. The stories of disguise are all nonsense; Mr. Lincoln merely took the sleeping-car in the night train. I know nothing of any connection of Mr. Pinkerton with the matter. The letter from which the above extract is made was sent to me by General Stone, in reply to an inquiry of mine, made in consequence of having seen an article in a newspaper which gave the whole credit of the movement to a person who I supposed had little to do with it. My opportunity for knowing who the parties were that rendered this service to the country was very good, but I thought it advisable to have the testimony of one of the most active in it to sustain my
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, Chapter 3: fall and winter of 1861 (search)
, although for some time careful account was kept of arrivals of new troops at Washington. But this was found less reliable than the accounts in the daily papers. From them we learned not only of all arrivals, but also of assignments to brigades and divisions, and, by tabulating these, we always knew quite accurately the strength of the enemy's army. Why the enemy, by similar obvious methods, did not, also, always know our strength, remains a mystery. But McClellan had a bureau under Pinkerton to estimate for him, from the reports of spies, prisoners, and deserters, and implicitly believed, by preference, the most absurd and impossible of all their reports. As an illustration may be taken his report in October, 1861, in which he estimates the Confederate army on the Potomac as not less than 150,000 strong, well-drilled and equipped, ably commanded and strongly intrenched. In fact, the Confederate army at the time was only about 40,000 strong. It was very poorly drilled and
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lincoln, Abraham 1809- (search)
ental Hotel. Mr. Judd, a warm personal friend from Chicago, sent for me to come to his room. I went, and found there Mr. Pinkerton, a skilful police detective, also from Chicago, who had been employed for some days in Baltimore watching or searching for suspicious persons there. Pinkerton informed me that a plan had been laid for my assassination, the exact time when I expected to go through Baltimore being publicly known. He was well informed as to the plan, but did not know that the consptt, to inform me that their detectives in Baltimore had discovered a plot there to assassinate me. They knew nothing of Pinkerton's movements. I now believed such a plot to be in existence. The next morning I raised the flag over Independence Hall nobody knew] and Mr. Judd. Sumner and Hunter felt hurt. We went back to Philadelphia, and found a message there from Pinkerton [who had returned to Baltimore] that the conspirators had held their final meeting that evening, and it was doubtful wh
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
Catholic Sioux Congress opens at the Cheyenne agency, South Dakota; 6,000 Sioux Indians present......July 3, 1892 First National Convention of the People's party meets at Omaha, Neb., July 2; H. L. Loucks, of South Dakota, permanent chairman. Gen. James B. Weaver, of Iowa, nominated for President, July 4; Gen. James G. Field, of Virginia, for Vice-President......July 5, 1892 Congress appropriates $50,000 for site and pedestal for a statue of Gen. W. T. Sherman......July 5, 1892 Pinkerton detectives, attempting to land from a barge at the Carnegie mills, Homestead, Pa., are attacked by strikers; several detectives and strikers killed or wounded......July 6, 1892 Entire National Guard of Pennsylvania is ordered to Homestead by Governor Pattison......July 10, 1892 Lock-out involving 3,000 striking miners begins in the Coeur d'alene mining district, in Shoshone county, Id., April 1; an attack is made by union men on new hands employed in the Gem mine, in which several ar
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 9 (search)
772, d.—Sept. 1772, a. 5 mos.; and a dau., d. 22 Oct. 1772, a. 3 yrs. Lydia, of Camb., m. James Winship, of Lexington, 15 Apr. 1762. Miss Betsey, d. 18 Aug. 1802, a. 20. Mason, m. Lydia Whittemore, 29 Jan. 1826. Pierce. See Peirce. Pierpont, Mary, of Camb., m. Thomas Wybert, of Boston, 27 Jan. 1776. Pilkington, Mary Ann Fellows, o. c. (Fiske) 28 July, 1821; had chil. Georgianna Amory, a. 4 yrs., Caroline Weston, a. 2 yrs., and Mary Bethune, a. 2 mos., all bap. 28 July; 1821. Pinkerton, Archibald, d. 13 Jan. 1837, a. 42. Thomas, had child, d. 24 Oct. 1840. Piper, infant, from Mrs. Piper's, d.—Jan. 1761. Thomas, s. of Nathaniel, b. 25, bap. 30 May, 1762; prob. the nurse child at Budge's—from Medford—d. 26 July, 1762, a. 3 mos. Benjamin Piper was a Pct. committeeman and assessor in 1781. See Wyman, 764. Pitts, Mary, m. Samuel Fillebrown, 9 Nov. 1775. Lemuel, of Charlestown, m. Harriet A. Peirce of W. Camb., 7 Mar. 1839. Plympton, Shubael, d. 19 June, 1836, a
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., Index of names. (search)
271, 273, 274, 280-85, 287, 295, 296, 303, 307, 311, 315,345 Pelham, 9, 12, 19 Penn, 165 Penny, 282 Percy (see Lord Percy） Perkins, 216, 236, 247, 282 Perry, 17, 28, 37, 58, 83, 96, 111, 112-15, 137, 138, 140, 169-71, 185, 187, 198, 205, 234,246, 258, 269, 270, 272, 273, 276, 282, 283, 298, 316 Phelps, 187, 283, 321 Philbrick, 283 Phillips, 32, 84, 266, 279, 283, 320, 329 Phips, 2 Phipps, 60 Pierce, see Peirce. Pierpont, 283, 331 Pilkington, 283 Pinkerton, 283 Piper, 94, 96, 167, 168, 283, 327 Pitcairne, 52 Pitts, 239, 281, 283 Plympton, 283 Poland, 160, 171, 283, 285 Pollard, 166, 178, 308, 351 Polly, 72, 96, 221, 283, 284, 305 Pomroy, 257, 284 Pool and Poole, 165, 211, 272, 284 Poor, 273 Porter, 31, 32, 80, 90, 91, 207, 223, 252, 273, 284, 344 Potamea, 58 Potter, 54, 154, 165, 170, 172, 177, 189, 284 Powers, 342 Pradox, 58 Pratt, 164, 188, 194,284 Prentice and Prentiss, 9, 20, 25, 27, 28,
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 24: (search)
tia. The summer of the next year passed in that 1747. inactivity which attends the expectation of peace; and in September, the provincial army, by direction of the duke of Newcastle, was disbanded. Men believed that England, from motives of policy, had not desired success. There is reason enough for doubting whether the king, if he had the power, would wish to drive the French from their possessions in Canada. Such was public opinion at NewYork, in 1748, as pre- 1748. Nov. Kalm, II. Pinkerton, II. 461. served for us by the Swedish traveller, Peter Kalm. The English colonies in this part of the world, he continues, have increased so much in wealth and population, that they will vie with European England But to maintain the commerce and the power of the metropolis, they are forbid to establish new manufactures, which might compete with the English; they may dig for gold and silver only on condition of ship ping them immediately to England; they have, with the exception of a few