The Baltimore plot
By: C.C. Felton
Published: 1885
Language: eng
Number of pages: 130
Subjects: Assassination attempt, 1861
Description: A recounting of the attempt to assassinate Abraham Lincoln before his inauguration in 1861 with special emphasis on the involvement of Samuel Morse Felton.
Notes: Detached from The Harvard Monthly, December 1885.

"Samuel Felton was a railroad CEO who became famous for preventing an assassination attempt against President-elect Lincoln in 1861. He attended Harvard and embarked on a career in engineering. He worked in the railroad business, initially in Boston. Eventually, in 1851, he moved to Philadelphia to assume leadership of the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad. Under his guidance this business became among the most successful at the time. With an investigator named Allan Pinkerton, In 1861, Felton became aware of a plan to assassinate Lincoln by blowing up the railroad during the President's inaugural trip from Philadelphia to Washington, DC. With the work of Felton and Pinkerton, Lincoln was taken by train to DC without harm. The same railroad, under Felton's guidance, helped supply Union troops during the Civil War." -- from the Samuel Morse Felton (1809-1889) entry at Findagrave.com