Saving Lincoln is a dramatic biographical film released on February 13, 2013. It tells the little-known story of
Ward Hill Lamon, who was
Abraham Lincoln's law partner in Danville, Illinois from 1852 until 1857. Lamon accompanied Lincoln to Washington and served as the President's main bodyguard during the
Civil War, thwarting several assassination attempts while holding the post of US Marshal. Lincoln and Lamon were close friends. Lincoln sent Lamon to Richmond, Virginia, on
Reconstruction business a few days before April 14, 1865, the day that
John Wilkes Booth assassinated the President.