Books
American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1861. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1875.
Anonymous. Diary of a Public Man. Bullard, Lauriston F., ed. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1946.
Arnold, Isaac N. The History of Abraham Lincoln and the Overthrow of Slavery. Chicago: Clarke & Co., 1866.
Basler, Roy P., et al., eds. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. 8 vols. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1955.
Beymer, William Gilmore. On Hazardous Service: Scouts and Spies of the North and South. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1912.
Brown, George William. Baltimore & The Nineteenth of April, 1861. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Brown, Thomas J. Dorothea Dix, New England Reformer. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1887.
Browne, Francis Fisher. The Everyday Life of Abraham Lincoln. Chicago: Brown & Howell Co., 1913.
Bryan, George S. The Spy in America. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1943.
Burlingame, Michael. Abraham Lincoln: A Life. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
______. ed. Lincoln’s Journalist: John Hay’s Anonymous Writings for the Press. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1998.
______. ed. An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln: John G. Nicolay’s Interviews and Essays. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996.
Burlingame, Michael, and Ettlinger, John R. Turner, eds. Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete Civil War Diary of John Hay. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997.
Campbell, Tom. Fighting Slavery in Chicago: Abolitionists, the Law of Slavery, and Lincoln. Chicago: Ampersand, Inc., 2009.
Carton, Evan. Patriotic Treason: John Brown and the Soul of America. New York: Free Press, 2006.
Chittenden, Lucius Eugene. Invisible Siege: The Journal of Lucius E. Chittenden, April 15, 1861–July 14, 1861. San Diego: Americana Exchange Press, 1969.
______. Recollections of Abraham Lincoln and His Administration. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1891.
Cuthbert, Norma B. Lincoln and the Baltimore Plot, 1861: From Pinkerton Records and Related Papers. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1949.
Donald, David Herbert. “We Are Lincoln Men”: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.
______. Lincoln. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
Donald, David Herbert, and Harold Holzer, eds. Lincoln in the Times: The Life of Abraham Lincoln as Originally Reported in the New York Times. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2005.
Durie, Bruce, ed. The Pinkerton Casebook: Adventures of the Original Private Eye. Edinburgh: Mercat Press, 2007.
Epstein, Daniel Mark. Lincoln’s Men: The President and His Private Secretaries. New York: HarperCollins, 2009.
______. The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage. New York: Ballantine Books, 2008.
Fishel, Edwin C. The Secret War for the Union: The Untold Story of Military Intelligence in the Civil War. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.
Foner, Philip S., and Yuval Taylor, eds. Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings. Chicago: Lawrence Hill, 1999.
Forney, John W. Anecdotes of Public Men. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1873.
Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.
Greeley, Horace. The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860–’65. Hartford: O. D. Case & Company, 1866.
Hall, Clayton Colman, ed. Baltimore: Its History and People. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing, 1912.
Hamlin, Charles Eugene. The Life and Times of Hannibal Hamlin. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1899.
Hanchett, William. The Lincoln Murder Conspiracies. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983.
Hay, Clara S. The Life and Letters of John Hay. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1915.
Herndon, William H., and Jesse W. Weik. Herndon’s Life of Lincoln. Cleveland: World Publishing Co., 1942.
Herndon, William H., and Jesse W. Weik. Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1930.
Holzer, Harold. Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860–1861. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008.
______. ed. Lincoln As I Knew Him. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1999.
______. ed. Dear Mr. Lincoln: Letters to the President. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1995.
Horan, James David. The Pinkertons: The Detective Dynasty That Made History. New York: Crown, 1967.
Horan, James D., and Swiggett, Howard. The Pinkerton Story. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1951.
Hynd, Alan. Arrival: 12:30: The Baltimore Plot Against Lincoln. Camden, NJ: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1967.
Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri. Cloak and Dollar: A History of American Secret Intelligence. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.
Jones, Thomas D. Memories of Lincoln. New York: Press of the Pioneers, 1934.
Kline, Michael J. The Baltimore Plot. Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, 2008.
Lamon, Ward Hill. The Life of Abraham Lincoln from His Birth to His Inauguration as President. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.
______. Recollections of Abraham Lincoln: 1847–1865. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.
Lossing, Benson J. The Pictorial History of the Civil War in the United States of America. Philadelphia: G. W. Childs, 1868.
MacKay, James. Allan Pinkerton: The First Private Eye. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1996.
McClure, Alexander K. Abraham Lincoln and Men of War Times. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996.
McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Mansch, Larry D. Abraham Lincoln, President-Elect. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2005.
Markle, Donald E. Spies and Spymasters of the Civil War. New York: Hypocrene Books, 2004.
Mearns, David C., ed. The Lincoln Papers. 2 vols. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1948.
Miers, Earl Schenck, ed. Lincoln Day by Day: A Chronology, 1809–1865. 3 vols. Washington, DC: Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission, 1960.
Miller, Edward A. Lincoln’s Abolitionist General: The Biography of David Hunter. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1997.
Morn, Frank. The Eye That Never Sleeps: A History of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982.
Muckenhoupt, Margaret. Dorothea Dix: Advocate for Mental Health Care. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Nevins, Allan. The Emergence of Lincoln. 2 vols. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1950.
Nicolay, Helen. Lincoln’s Secretary: A Biography of John G. Nicolay. New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1949.
Nicolay, John G., and Hay, John. Abraham Lincoln, A History. 10 vols. New York: Century Co., 1890.
Oates, Stephen B. With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln. New York: Harper & Row, 1977.
Packard, Jerrold M. The Lincolns in the White House. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2005.
Pinkerton, Allan. The Somnambulist and the Detective; The Murderer and the Fortune Teller. New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., 1900.
______. The Spy of the Rebellion. New York: G. W. Carleton & Co., 1884.
______. The Expressman and the Detective. New York: G. W. Carleton & Co., 1880.
______. Criminal Reminiscences and Detective Sketches. New York: G. W. Carleton & Co., 1879.
______. History and Evidence of the Passage of Abraham Lincoln from Harrisburg, PA, to Washington, D.C. on the 22d and 23d of February, 1861. Chicago: Republican Print, 1868.
Potter, John Mason. Thirteen Desperate Days. New York: Ivan Obolensky 1964.
Radcliffe, George L. P. Governor Thomas Hicks of Maryland and the Civil War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1965.
Randall, Ruth Painter. Colonel Elmer Ellsworth: A Biography of Lincoln’s Friend and First Hero of the Civil War. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1960.
Robinson, Charles M., III, American Frontier Lawmen 1850–1930. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2005.
Rowan, Richard Wilmer. The Pinkertons: A Detective Dynasty. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1931.
Sandburg, Carl. Lincoln Collector: The Story of Oliver R. Barrett’s Great Private Collection. New York: Bonanza Books, 1960.
______. Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1954.
Scharf, J. Thomas. History of Baltimore City and Country. Philadelphia: Louis H. Evarts, 1881.
______. History of Maryland. Baltimore: John B. Piet, 1879.
______. The Chronicles of Baltimore: Being a Complete History of “Baltimore Town” and Baltimore City from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. Baltimore: Turnbull Brothers, 1874.
Searcher, Victor. Lincoln’s Journey to Greatness: A Factual Account of the Twelve-Day Inaugural Trip. Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., 1960.
Seward, Frederick W. Seward at Washington as Senator and Secretary of State. New York: Derby and Miller, 1891.
Starr, John W., Jr. Lincoln and the Railroads: A Biographical Study. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1927.
Tiffany, Francis. The Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1892.
Villard, Henry. Lincoln on the Eve of ’61: A Journalist’s Story. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941.
Walling, George W. Recollections of a New York City Chief of Police. New Jersey: Patterson Smith Reprint Series, 1972.
Ward, William Hayes. Abraham Lincoln: Tributes from His Associates; Reminiscences of Soldiers, Statesmen and Citizens. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1895.
Wilson, Dorothy Clark. Stranger and Traveler: The Story of Dorothea Dix, American Reformer. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1975.
Wilson, Douglas L., and Rodney O. Davis. Herndon’s Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements About Abraham Lincoln. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998.
Wilson, Rufus Rockwell. Lincoln in Caricature. New York: Horizon Press, 1953.
Periodicals and Newspapers
The Abraham Lincoln Quarterly; The Atlas & Argus; Baltimore Sun; Boston Commonwealth; Bulletin of the Abraham Lincoln Association; Century Magazine; Charleston Mercury; Civil War Times; Cleveland Plain Dealer; Douglass’ Monthly; Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper; Harper’s New Monthly Magazine; Maryland Historical Magazine; McClure’s Magazine; National Republic; New York Daily Graphic; New York Herald; New York Independent; New York Times; New-York Tribune: New York World; North American Review; Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies; Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography; Philadelphia Inquirer; Transactions and Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society; True Magazine; Wisconsin Magazine of History.