History is beautiful, if you ignore the things you don't like.
Read up on the Baltimore Plot. (But don't look for it in the index of most Lincoln biographies; unless they are biographies of Mary Todd.)
ML/NJ
Or if you make things up as you go along. Mary Lincoln and the children remained in Harrisbug while Lincoln traveled to D.C. The were perfectly safe in Pennsylvania, and didn't leave for Washington until several hours after Lincoln had arrived and after he'd been seen publicly in the city.
(But don't look for it in the index of most Lincoln biographies; unless they are biographies of Mary Todd.)
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