Murder on the Baltimore Express: The Plot to Keep Abraham Lincoln from Becoming President

In February 1861, Abraham Lincoln set out on a triumphant 2,000 mile cross-country railroad trip that would take him from his home in Springfield, Illinois, to his Presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C. But danger was around the bend, as a band of fanatic southern Confederate sympathizers were desperate for Lincoln to die. Furious at the new president's desire to end slavery, they devised a plan. Lincoln would be murdered by an assassin's bullet in Baltimore. As rushing railway trains carried Abraham Lincoln towards disaster, Detective Allan Pinkerton sniffed out the plot—and he and his detective assistants hatched a daring plan of their own.

Dive into this incredibly fun and suspenseful true story and learn about Lincoln's great escape!