The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President —and Why It Failed by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch...

H. C. ———, a mad private, and Northern man, in a Georgia Regiment, writes to the President, proposing to take some 300 to 500 men of resolu...

. . . . Jim Lane came into my room this morning and said the President must now chiefly guard against assassination. I pooh-poohed him, and...

Early this morning I consulted with Major Hunter as to measures proper to be taken in the matter of guarding the house. He told me that he...

For a long time it was believed that an Italian barber of Baltimore was the Orsini who undertook to slay President Lincoln on his journey ...