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Lincoln Bodyguard Attentive Witness to Near Assassination
Private from the Bucktail regiment recounts three years in Washington as President Lincoln's bodyguard. He details late rests, strict guard duties, a near assassination when a shot scarred Lincoln’s hat, a thwarted kidnapping plot, and a sabotage fire at the White House stables that destroyed Tad Lincoln’s ponies and Hay’s carriage team.
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One Hundred and Fifth
Pennsylvania Volunteers
Lincoln
Washington
Guard
White House
Secret Service
Thither
Ford
War Department
Secretary of War
Bladensburg
Lamon
District of Columbia
Executive Mansion
Treaaury
War and Navy
Virginia
Richmond
Bourke
Pierce
Buchanan
Tad Lincoln
Col. Hay