Regarding "Lincoln's Spymaster" By: Gabbi Johnson
Our story starts out with a man named Allan Pinkerton. Pinkerton lives with his wife, Joan, in the northern state of Illinois. The two hate slavery and often harbor runaway slaves at their house. Pinkerton runs a barrel making business that he cares very much for. There is an island that has an abundance of trees so Pinkerton goes out to collect wood for barrels. While he is there he sees the burning embers of a campfire but gathers the word and sales home trying not to think much of it. When Pinkerton gets back to his home, Dundee, Illinois, he can’t get the thought of the campfire out of his head. Pinkerton decides that he will return to the island and check for more suspicious activity. …show more content…
He has befriended another of Ferrandini’s clan members that took Davies to meet Ferrandini. Not only did he meet Ferrandini he became a member of the clan himself through an oath , purely for information gathering purposes obviously. Davies knows the in's and the out's of this operation, Ferrandini even gave him the chance to become part of it. While at a clan gathering Ferrandini passes around a box filled with ballots. He says that out of the ballots there is one red and the rest are green. Whoever receives the red one will be called upon to murder Lincoln. Little did anyone know that the box didn’t have only one ballot but eight! Eight people would be pointing their guns at Lincoln the day he arrived in …show more content…
Pinkerton is put in charge of the secret service because he had brought Lincoln safely to Washington. Even after saving Lincoln, the two stay in touch through Pinkerton’s employee, Webster, that is willing to convey messages between them. Without Pinkerton’s help in a situation like that, Abraham Lincoln surely would’ve died before he could become the great president he was. Pinkerton was a truly great detective and the very first "private eye" of
Our story starts out with a man named Allan Pinkerton. Pinkerton lives with his wife, Joan, in the northern state of Illinois. The two hate slavery and often harbor runaway slaves at their house. Pinkerton runs a barrel making business that he cares very much for. There is an island that has an abundance of trees so Pinkerton goes out to collect wood for barrels. While he is there he sees the burning embers of a campfire but gathers the word and sales home trying not to think much of it. When Pinkerton gets back to his home, Dundee, Illinois, he can’t get the thought of the campfire out of his head. Pinkerton decides that he will return to the island and check for more suspicious activity. …show more content…
He has befriended another of Ferrandini’s clan members that took Davies to meet Ferrandini. Not only did he meet Ferrandini he became a member of the clan himself through an oath , purely for information gathering purposes obviously. Davies knows the in's and the out's of this operation, Ferrandini even gave him the chance to become part of it. While at a clan gathering Ferrandini passes around a box filled with ballots. He says that out of the ballots there is one red and the rest are green. Whoever receives the red one will be called upon to murder Lincoln. Little did anyone know that the box didn’t have only one ballot but eight! Eight people would be pointing their guns at Lincoln the day he arrived in …show more content…
Pinkerton is put in charge of the secret service because he had brought Lincoln safely to Washington. Even after saving Lincoln, the two stay in touch through Pinkerton’s employee, Webster, that is willing to convey messages between them. Without Pinkerton’s help in a situation like that, Abraham Lincoln surely would’ve died before he could become the great president he was. Pinkerton was a truly great detective and the very first "private eye" of