Breaking a leg

[J. Beckert]

It's been very interesting, Craig and Jerry always has interesting "what ifs", but I'm going with heading south. The North was intact after the war. The South was decimated. It seems to me that there was a better chance to escape South where lines of communication were sporadically disrupted and Booth (mistakenly) thought he'd be perceived as a hero there. Travelling northward through major cities that had no wounds from the war seems too risky.