Existing comment:
Knife and Case, Brass Knuckles, Artillery Goggles:
When the Baltimore assassination plot was uncovered, Lincoln's friend and bodyguard Ward Hill Lamon offered the president-elect this knife, artillery, goggles, and brass knuckles.
Detective Allan Pinkerton, charged with Lincoln's protection, disapproved, saying that he "would not for the world have it said that Mr. Lincoln had to enter the National Capital armed." |