On the eve of his fifty-second birthday, February 11, 1861, the president-elect of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, walked onto a train in Springfield, Illinois , the first step of a 1,900 mile journey to the White House, and his rendezvous with destiny. From the moment the Presidential Special left the station, a new Lincoln was on display, speaking constantly, from a moving train, to save the Republic. The journey would draw on all of Lincoln's...