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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 21: closing events of the War.--assassination of the President. (search)
u would have been left. Mr, Lincoln and the detective being safely ensconced in the sleeping-car, and my package safely in the hands of the conductor, the train started for Baltimore, about fifteen minutes behind time. Our man number three, George Stearns, started on the train to go to Baltimore, and hand it over, with its contents, to man number one, William Stearns, who awaited its arrival in Baltimore. Before the train reached Gray's Ferry bridge, and before Mr. Lincoln had resigned himself to slumber, the conductor came to George Stearns, and accosting him, said: George, I thought you and I were friends. Why did you not tell me Old Abe was on board? George, thinking the conductor had, in some way, become possessed of the secret, answered: John, we are friends, and, as you have found it out, Old Abe is on board, and we will still be friends, and see him safely through. John answered, Yes, if it costs me my life, he shall have a safe passage, and so George stuck to one end of