Breaking a leg

[J. Beckert]

Thinking about heading north, piecing together a route from what I've read about Booth's travels and Lincoln's Funeral Train, in 1865, if Booth did head north, he'd have to stop in (at least), Baltimore, Md., Philadelphia, Pa., Trenton, N.J., Jersey City, N.J., take a ferry into NYC, Newburgh, N.Y. and stop in Albany, N.Y., before he even got close to a rural route. Any railroad buffs that could shed some light on a time frame to travel to Albany from Maryland? I'm sure the telegraph was a lot faster than the trains. If this trip took at least 48 hours, it seems very improbable to me.

The points you made about Herold, Roger, are the only ones I can think of.