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New play by a local writer explores assassination plot

The Springfield Oyster and Beer Festival will take place at the Inn at 835 from noon until 5 p.m. on Saturday.

A look at events taking place in Jacksonville, Illinois, and surrounding counties, including Sangamon, Springfield, Carrollton, Roodhouse, Greene, Winchester, Scott, Pittsfield, Pike, Mount Sterling, Mt. Sterling, Brown, Virginia, Beardstown, Cass

In February 1861, the Pinkerton agent, posing as the disguised president-elect's sister and caregiver, safely escorted him to Baltimore

Also noteworthy: Mildly noteworthy was that Warne saved the life of Abraham Fucking Lincoln, and possibly the Union itself. In 1861, the Philadelphia, Wilmington And Baltimore Railroad hired the Pinkertons to investigate secessionists threatening the railroad. Pinkerton sent five agents, Warne among them. At this point, she had discovered aliases that weren’t her own last name, and under the guise of a Southern belle alternately named Mrs. Cherry or Mrs. M. Barley, she infiltrated pro-secessi...

Kate Warne, America’s first female private investigator, played a crucial role in shielding Lincoln from assassins on his way to his first inauguration in 1861.

The woman who helped protect Lincoln from the men who tried to kill him in 1861 Petula Dvorak Because no one suspected that the beguiling woman mingling in Alabama social circles was a private eye hunting a master embezzler. The secessionists flirting and gossiping with the lovely "Mrs. Cherry" at Baltimore galas didnt worry about tipping off the charming Southern belle to their assassination plot. And while a city bristling with weapons, rumors, assassins, spies and officers anxiously waited f...

1/19/2021 Biden Isnt the First President to Have to Change Tracks en Route to Inauguration Historians/History by Jeff Rogg Jeff Rogg is a postdoctoral fellow in the National Security Affairs Department at the U.S. Naval War College. Jeff received his PhD in history from The Ohio State University in December 2020. His dissertation, The Spy and the State , is a complete history of American intelligence from the Revolutionary War to the present. The views in this article are the...

10 Women Who Transformed Themselves Into Superheroes Black Widow, Wonder Woman, and Scarlet Witch are all fictional, but fortunately, the world is full of real-life superheroes far more amazing than their comic book counterparts. The ladies on this list have all fought monsters, saved people in distress, and made our planet a safer place. 10Lydia Angiyou Lydia Angiyou stands 155 centimeters (5’1”) and weighs about 40 kilograms (90 lb). She isn’t exactly what you’d call “intimidating,�...