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The Tuesday Pillar Post

JD Flynn
Feb 23, 2021
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Hey everybody!

On this day in 1861, President-elect Abraham Lincoln traveled in disguise from Harrisburg to Washington, DC, in order to avoid an assassination plot against him. Lincoln wore a shawl and a beaver pelt hat, and he slept in a berth in an ordinary train car, while his official train traveled without him.

When Lincoln was safe and word got out…

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