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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Contents
Epigraph
Author’s Note
Introduction
Special Ticket
Part One: The Cooper and The Rail Splitter
Allan Pinkerton
Prologue: His Hour Had Not Yet Come
Inaugural Ceremonies
Inaugural Procession
Chapter One: The Apprentice
Chapter Two: How I Became a Detective
Chapter Three: Ardent Spirits
“Private Eye”
Chapter Four: Pink Lady
Chapter Five: Let Us Dare to Do Our Duty
John Brown
Chapter Six: It’s Coming Yet
Part Two: Plums and Nuts
Lincoln Shall Die
Chapter Seven: A Pig-Tail Whistle
Chapter Eight: Mobtown
Chapter Nine: Suspicions of Danger
Colonel Elmer Ellsworth
Time Card
Chapter Ten: Hostile Organizations
Chapter Eleven: The Man and the Hour
Secretaries
Chapter Twelve: If I Alone Must Do it
Ward Hill Lamon
Chapter Thirteen: A Postponed Rebellion
Lincoln Family
Chapter Fourteen: A Rabid Rebel
George P. Kane
Chapter Fifteen: A Single Red Ballot
Harry Davies
Chapter Sixteen: Whitewash
Chapter Seventeen: The Music Agent
Chapter Eighteen: A Few Determined Men
Chapter Nineteen: An Assault of Some Kind
Chapter Twenty: The Assassin’s Knife
Part Three: The Martyr and the Scapegoat
Antietam
Chapter Twenty-One: The Flight of Abraham
Chapter Twenty-Two: The Hour of Peril
Chapter Twenty-Three: Some Very Tall Swearing
Lincoln in Washington
Epilogue: An Infamous Lie
“The Flight of Abraham”
Colonel Ellsworth
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index
Also by Daniel Stashower
About the Author
Copyright
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