Escape speculations

[RJNorton]

Hi Betty. This is one of the reasons why I have some difficulty in accepting the Confederate plot theory. I would think that if the Confederate government/operatives ordered the "hit" on Lincoln and others then there would have been a set/firm escape plan in place for Booth and his boys. I just don't see solid evidence of this. Possibly Herold was in the country on the 12th/13th rounding up support, possibly Powell would head to Baltimore after the Seward attack, perhaps provisions were stored at Mudd's, and Mary Surratt apparently asked the time the pickets would leave their guard duty on the road to Surrattsville. So to me this sounds more like a plot that came from John Wilkes Booth, not Richmond. Would the Confederate government really give assassination orders but leave out a set plan of escape for the perpetrators?