she went to see samuel felton. samuel felton was the president of the philadelphia, wilmington and baltimore railroad. and she had been hearing stories of plots to kill president lincoln, and variety of possibilities. by blowing up a railroad bridge as his train was going over it en route to washington. or setting fire to a railroad bridge as his train was coming up to it. and samuel felton was sufficiently spooked that he armed his conductors with pistols, and he hired 200 security guys who he masqueraded as maintenance men. and he sent them out to the railroad bridges and had them -- it looked like they were whitewashing the bridges. actually what they were doing they were painting the timbers with salt and alum to fireproof them. and then felton hired the detective allen pinkerton to go down to baltimore and see what was going on. and so pinkerton with eight or nine detectives travels down to baltimore, and they just sort of fan out and start infiltrating pro-secessionist hot spots. one of the detectives, timoth

and in 1861, samuel morris felton who was the president of the b and o railroad had received an unannounced visit from dorothea dix and she told him the following that there was an extensive and organized plot around the south to declare the southern confederacy the government of the united states. at the same time they were to cut off all means of communication between washington and the north, east and west, and thus prevent the transportation of troops to wrest the capitol from the hands of the insurgents. mr. lincoln's inauguration was thus to be prevented or his life would fall to sacrifice. she said troops drilling on the line of our own road the men drilled to obey the commands of their leaders and the leaders were banded together to capture washington. well, felton immediately took this information to the aforementioned marshall george p. cane. but according to felton, he, cane scouted the idea that there was any such thing on foot, said he had thoroughly investigated the whole matter and there was not the slightest foundation for such rumors. i then determined to have nothing more