The Plot to Bomb The White House

September 15, 2015  •  Leave a Comment

Even after the fall of the Confederate capital and the surrender of General Robert E. Lee, the war was not over for some southern conspirators. As Washington celebrated the end of the Civil War, rebels planned to sneak into the White House to place explosives. Not much is known about Thomas F. Harney, the bomb expert tasked with the job, only that he was captured as an enemy combatant on his way into town and soon released. The plan to blow up the White House was not discovered until much later.

Almost anyone could walk into the White House in 1865, and Lincoln found it difficult to take seriously warnings that he was in danger.

 


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