Booth's Escape Route

[JMadonna]

(01-21-2013 06:06 PM)MaddieM Wrote:  The thing that most surprises me about Lewis, is that he seemingly did not have the capacity to see the larger picture. But then, none of them did. Undoubtedly, the whole assassination was a botched job, badly planned, and almost child like in it's plotting. What were they thinking? There was no real escape route, the horse Powell had was a nag with one eye, and a pacer to boot. He was someone who knew his horseflesh. What on earth made him go along with such poor planning? He worked raids with Mosby, which surely must have been tactical. This is what baffles me. Are we missing something? Is there a missing piece to the puzzle?

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.