Through Five Administrations

[Gene C]

According to Crook, the first sentence in his book
"It was in November 1864, that four police officers were detailed by Mr. William B Webb, who was then chief of police in the district of Columbia, to be a special guard for President Lincoln." ......"The men were, Alfonso Dunn, John Parker, Alexander Smith and Thomas Pendel"

on page 2, " The night-guards were expected to protect the President on his expeditions to and fromt the War Department, or while he was at any pace of amusement, and to patrol the corridor outside his room while he slept. We were all armed with revolvers"