President-Elect Abraham Lincoln (@ALPLM) arrived secretly in Washington, DC #OTD in 1861. He checked into the famed @WillardHotel in preparation of his upcoming inauguration the following week. 
Lincoln’s original train had been scheduled to travel through Baltimore, but railroad detective Allan Pinkerton uncovered a possible plot to assassinate Lincoln at the station there, and convinced him to switch to an earlier train that passed through Baltimore at night.
Though he arrived safely, Lincoln was mocked ruthlessly in the press, which questioned his masculinity and implied that he was too cowardly to face the potentially hostile crowd.
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