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"The Virginian Who Might Have Saved Lincoln"
By Bob O'Connor
A book about Ward Hill Lamon, Abraham Lincoln's friend, law partner and personal body guard in Washington who was not at Ford's Theater the night the president was assassinated.
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This book follows the relationship between Abraham Lincoln and Ward Hill Lamon. Lamon, from Western Virginia, met Lincoln on the 8th Judicial Circuit of Illinois where they were both attorneys. He was one of thre men Lincoln took to Washington with him when elected president. Lamon was the man who snuck Lincion into Washington from the train when a plot was uncovered by Allan Pinkerton to kill Lincoln when the train passed through Baltimore. Lamon was federal U.S. Marshal in Washington. He carried an arsenal of weapons on his body at all times. It is my contetnion that if he had been at Fords Theater he would have killed John Wilkes Booth. But Lamon wasn't there. Of 44,782 books in print about Lincoln, this is the first ever written about his personal body guard.
