The Death of George Bickley

On February 22, Lincoln spoke to Pennsylvania's legislature in Harrisburg but the reception planned for that evening was called off. The telegraph lines from Harrisburg to Baltimore were temporarily disconnected and Lincoln sped back to Philadelphia in a special one car train. There, he donned an old overcoat and soft felt hat and boarded the last sleeping car of the P.W.B.R.'s night train to Baltimore,. accompanied only by his heavily armed bodyguard Ward Hill, Le Mans, and Pinkerton. He arrived in Baltimore at 3.30a.m. and they transferred him to another train to Washington where he arrived at 6 a.m. Southern newspapers called him a coward for