Plot to Kill Linoln - Unraveled

President-elect Lincoln finally agrees to secretly change his plans, thereby avoiding an assassination plot.

This graphic, printed in Harper's Weekly (on March 9, 1861), illustrates the story.  Its caption reads:

(3.)  THE SPECIAL TRAIN
“He wore a Scotch plaid cap and a very long Military Cloak, so that he was entirely unrecognizable.”

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Credits

Harper’s Weekly, March 9, 1861, page 160.