Booth's Escape Route

[BettyO]

The inescapable conclusion is that, as so often happens in conspiracies, the grunts were hanged and imprisoned, but their superiors who gave the orders, got away with murder, just as they had gotten away with treason and rebellion.

Still happens....I see it every day! Yes, I have to agree, Maddie. I think that with Lew Powell, it was simply an error of misjudgement, youth and immaturity - not to discredit Lew and his military qualities, but so much for being a soldier.