Status Updates From The Lincoln Conspiracy: The...

"Lincoln's prediction on the night of his first election - that he would live through his first term in office and perish during his second - would soon be proven true."

"[Pinkerton's] military 'Secret Service' organization, sometimes called the Union Intelligence Service, is at least in part the forerunner to the US Secret Service as we know it today."

I did not realize that ChiefvJustice Taney of all people swore Lincoln in. How strange.

Looks like Winfield Scott was thinking somewhat along the lines of the modern Secret Service when it came to protecting Lincoln. It's too bad he couldn't have been the top Union general during the Civil War - it might have ended earlier, and still in the favor of the Union. "Old Fuss and Feathers" - yes, but his insistence on protocol doesn't necessarily mean he can't to the job.

"Indeed, [Frederick] Douglass's own escape from slavery was on the very same train line - the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore - and along the same route as Lincoln took under cover of darkness [in 1861]." Interesting.

As president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis swore in Alexander Stephens as the vice-president of the Confederacy. But later, the two had such a personality clash that they didn't want to be in the same state at the same time.

A pet peeve is that Mary Todd Lincoln was never known as such during her lifetime, and after her marriage signed herself as "Mary Lincoln." I think she should be referred to as Mary Lincoln unless there is a need to differentiate between her and another contemporaneous Mary Lincoln, in which case adding the "Todd" would make sense. But I don't think that's the case.