Booth's field glass

[JMadonna]

(07-11-2012 09:03 PM)L Verge Wrote:  If I were Booth, I would have bet that the authorities would go looking for my family, and they were in Philadelphia and points north. To me, I would assume that the authorities would assume that I was heading for Canada and asylum - so I'd go the other way.

And you'd have been caught just like Booth was.

Joining the ranks of unknowns wandering around in an area, living hand to mouth was not going to get him out of the country and going south was taking him further from his goal unless you don't believe his goal was to leave the country. If not what was his ultimate destination?

What were his options for succeeding going south? The people of the south were starving and under the terror of the army. He knew that before he committed the act. It was partially the reason he assassinated Lincoln.

Benjamin barely got away using the southern train system a week before the assassination. He was able to win the race to Florida ahead of the army of occupation. The train system was gone before Booth did his deed.

Who did he know in the south who could help him? Obviously not many. The organization he represented was in the north, the best avenues of escape was northward which is why he left his bread crumbs pointing south.