Booth's Escape Route

[JMadonna]

(01-23-2013 02:45 PM)Rob Wick Wrote:  And where exactly were these troops going to get supplies? Jefferson Davis had absolutely no support among his remaining generals. He might of found a few stragglers, but even guerilla warfare would not have changed anything. None of his remaining generals were willing to do what they considered suicide.

Rob,
Guerilla warfare did indeed exist and was active for over 100 years unless you consider the Ku Klux Klan in the same vein as the Optimists Club with a bad press agent.

The goal was to keep the South unassimilated, unreconciled and sectarian, thereby preserving hope for creation of a separate nation at a later date.

The removal of Federal leadership would create chaos in the government and, by extension, in the military because of the provisions of the 1792 statute.The inclusion by Booth of at least the President, the Vice President and the Secretary of State as targets, therefore, is further evidence of a link between Booth and Confederate leadership.

Orders to decapitate Northern leadership could only have come from persons who were conversant with that statute, i.e. Confederate leaders, not a 26-year old actor unschooled in the law.

BTW - Booth ran a 3 minute mile WITH a broken leg.