Killing Lincoln - Nat Geo (Reactions)

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Good point about Tad being somewhat of a protection. I also wonder how many Richmond people with revenge on their mind were still there at that point.

Betty knows the city's history at the end of the war better than I, but I would suspect that the better class citizens who had lost the most had skedaddled when the Yanks got to the city gates. The lower classes were likely too busy getting drunk from the barrels that had been looted from warehouses or destroyed by the fleeing proprietors -- or too drunk to remember where they left their weapons. The black population would seem to be no threat at all.

That's just a guess on my part. Any thoughts?