Thomas Jones

[Laurie Verge]

And again, please remember that Lee only surrendered his portion of the Confederate army. There were many more Southern soldiers under the command of Johnston, Kirby Smith, and others that were still fighting -- and a president of the Confederacy who was advocating guerrilla warfare before capitulation. How do we know for certain how a kidnap or assassination in early- to mid-April 1865, would affect the war effort?

Didn't Booth later write, "...our cause being almost lost, something decisive & great must be done."?
Couldn't Mosby, Harney and his handlers, and who knows how many others have had similar thoughts? Kidnapping or killing Lincoln or blowing up the White House qualifies as decisive and certainly "great" in the magnitude of what would happen in my mind.