Military Response Time To Assassination

[JMadonna]

(12-05-2013 12:51 AM)John E. Wrote:  Considering the lack of communication technology in 1865, can anyone argue that the military's response to Lincoln's assassination was anything but swift and overwhelming ?

Considering the fact that the Union Army was the largest in the world at that time and they were in the process of setting up military rule in the South - one could argue that the Booth's decision to escape southward was doomed from the start.