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平克顿向林肯总统提出暗杀的警告，旁边站立的是约翰．马克克拉南少将 (Major
General John A. McClernand)
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私家侦探平克顿 (Allan
Pinkerton) 于1819年8月25日出生于苏格兰的格拉斯高 (Glasgow)
在1861年时，平克顿正在调查一桩火车抢劫案件，他无意间发现有人要暗杀亚伯拉罕．林肯 (Abraham
Lincoln) 的计画。阴谋者想要在林肯前往参加就职典礼的途中，经过巴尔地摩 (Baltimore) 时，将之暗杀。平克顿立即通知林肯，于是林肯便改变路线，在夜晚平安的、秘密离开巴尔地摩。林肯后来延请平克顿成立「秘密情报局」，以便能在内战时取得南方各州的军事情报。在田纳西、乔治亚，与密西西比各州，平克顿也展开自己的调查工作，并且化名为爱伦少将 (Major
E.J. Allen) 。
In 1861, while investigating a railway case, Pinkerton uncovered an assassination plot against Abraham Lincoln. The conspirators intended to kill Lincoln in Baltimore during a stop on his way to his inauguration. Pinkerton warned Lincoln of the threat, and the president-elect's itinerary was changed so that he passed through the city secretly at night. Lincoln later hired Pinkerton to organize a "secret service" to obtain military information in the Southern states during the Civil War. In Tennessee, Georgia and Mississippi, he performed his own investigative work and traveled under the pseudonym (false name) "Major E.J. Allen."
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