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Bucktail bodyguard recalls Lincoln years and plots
A private from Company K 105th Pennsylvania recalls his three years in Washington as Lincoln’s bodyguard from 1862 to 1865. He recounts near misses including a gunshot to the president’s hat, a thwarted kidnapping plot, a stable fire that destroyed Tad Lincoln’s ponies, and heightened security turning to laxity before Lincoln’s assassination.
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One Hundred and Fifth
Pennsylvania Volunteers
Lincoln
Washington
Avery
White House
Ford
War Department
Secretary of War
Bladensburg
Lamon
District of Columbia
Executive Mansion
Treasury
War and Navy
Virginia
Richmond
Bourke
Pierce
Buchanan
Baltimore
Rourke
Sean
Barna
Guardiau
Tad Lincoln
Col. Hay
Thin Man