. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . ittle awkw ard, to use no stronger terms,for a few moments, until I said to the Colonel: • Whenwe get to Washington, Mr. Lincoln shall determinewhat apology is due to you. It is needless to describe the various stagesof Mr. Lincolns journey. The plan arranged a very long military cloak, so that he was entirely un-recognizable. This description was the pure in-vention of a newspaper correspondent understoodto be Joseph Howard, Jr., who later in the warwas imprisoned in Fort Lafayette for publishing aforged proclamation, about the draft, in th
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . ittle awkw ard, to use no stronger terms,for a few moments, until I said to the Colonel: • Whenwe get to Washington, Mr. Lincoln shall determinewhat apology is due to you. It is needless to describe the various stagesof Mr. Lincolns journey. The plan arranged a very long military cloak, so that he was entirely un-recognizable. This description was the pure in-vention of a newspaper correspondent understoodto be Joseph Howard, Jr., who later in the warwas imprisoned in Fort Lafayette for publishing aforged proclamation, about the draft, in the New Yorknewspapers. LINCOLNS IN A UG URA TION. 273 by the railroad and telegraph officials wascarried out to the smallest detail, without de-lay or special incident, and without coming tothe knoAvledge of any person on the train orelsewhere, except those to whom the secretwas confided. The President-elect and hissingle companion were safely and comfortablycarried from Harrisburg to Philadelphia, andat midnight took their berths in the sleeping-. WARD H. LAMON. (FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY BRADY.) car of the regular train from New York, pass-ing through Baltimore unrecognized and un-disturbed, and arriving in Washington at 6oclock on the morning of February 23d. Herethey were met by Mr. Seward and Mr. Wash-burne, member of Congress from Illinois, andconducted to Willards Hotel. The family andthe suite made the journey direct from Har-risburg to Baltimore, according to the previ-ously published programme, arriving in Wash-ington late that evening. They encounteredin Baltimore no incivility, nor any unusualdisorder, though, as elsewhere, dense crowds,very inadequately controlled by the police,surrounded the railroad depots and filled thestreets through which their carriages temptation, however, to commit an assaultwas now past, since it was every where knownthat Mr. Lincoln was not with the party, buthad already arrived at his destination. LINCOLN S INAUGURATION. Arrived i
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