OK, so intellectual honest is taking a single quote and making an entire conspiracy around it?
Most don’t mention the event at all.
How much time did you expect them to spend on it? David Herbert Donald's "Lincoln" goes into it in some detail. Shelby Foote mentions it in Volume 1 of his trilogy. McPherson does mention it in passing as you said. I even took your advice and looked it up on the internet. They all agree pretty much on the details which, not surprisingly, differ considerably from your innuendos. Pinkerton suspected an assassination attempt on Lincoln's life, they snuck him into town early, and Mrs. Lincoln followed later. That much in indisputable. You say he 'secretly abandoned her' yet Donald clearly details that Lincoln insisted his wife be told. You say that Lincoln thought the train was going to be attacked. Yet every account of the Baltimore plot that I read all agree that the train wasn't to be attacked, the attempt was to be made to kill Lincoln as he made his way through the city from one train station to another. Once in Washington Lincoln didn't hide in secret, he visited the President and leaders of Congress, rode through town with Seward, and met with other people all before Mrs. Lincoln arrived. So there was never any doubt that Lincoln was in town and not on the train. Mrs. Lincoln may have been nervous but there still was no indication that there ever was a threat to her or her safety. Now, perhaps you can pull your primary sources out of wherever they reside and show evidence to the contrary but until then I can't see where my intellectual honesty is open to question.
Besides, it isn't like Lincoln threw on his wife's shawl and beat feet through the woods, leaving Mrs. Lincoln at the mercy of enemy troops or anything like that? Is it?
Then why wasn't she told? (I guess Honest Abe never had an opportunity, huh.)
Go look at the NY Times microfilm, as I suggested; and then let me know what you think. Anything less is dishonest.
I've never lived south of 40 degrees North, and grew up with the same history you did. It's a history the winners wrote. I've spoken to some of the writers of this history and some of these have privately admitted to me that they couldn't write an honest history and keep their lofty university positions.
ML/NJ