Booth's Full Plan works, Lee orders Troops into wild, Jeff Davis Flees, Grant and She

What if Booth and his Friends killed Lincoln, Johnson , and Sterward. They also kill General Grant and Sherman. General Lee and Johnson both tell their troops to go into the wild to continune the war. And say Jefferson Davis flees the country. Is their hope for the CSA?
 

Asami

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Absolutely not. All that death and assassination will just make the South suffer so much harder.
 
Yeah, instead of a Reconstruction that was about as mild as possible, expect there to be a North eager for vengeance.
 
I suspect Lee and Davis would be appalled

That may be, but none the less, in such a TL history would record...

After Davis was captured in 1865, he was tried treason and convicted. He was executed in June 1866.

After the bloody events of April 1865, Lee was arrested and accused of treason but was not tried. He was released in 1868. He lost his right to vote and most of his family's property, including his prewar home, the Custis-Lee Mansion, which was seized by Union forces during the war and turned into Arlington National Cemetery. It was not until 1897 that the family was compensated. Perhaps, had those foulest of assassins not carried out their evil plan, Lee might have become an icon of reconciliation between the North and South, and the reintegration of former Confederates into the national fabric. Sadly we will never know.
 

Anaxagoras

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What if Booth and his Friends killed Lincoln, Johnson , and Sterward.

It's "Seward", not "Sterward".

They also kill General Grant and Sherman.

Sherman was hundreds of miles away.

General Lee and Johnson both tell their troops to go into the wild to continune the war.

That's never going to happen. Both were Virginia gentlemen of the old school who deplored the idea of a partisan war. And even if they had done so, the troops would simply have dispersed and gone home.

Is their hope for the CSA?

Are you joking? The South would be much, much, much worse off in this scenario than IOTL.
 
Well, i think it is obvious that the British and French are going to offer diplomatic recognition after these acts.

:rolleyes:

Grant and Sherman had regular military escorts. No way do assassins reach them. The basis of many "Lincoln Lives" ATLs are if Grant had accepted the Lincoln's offer to attend the theater that night. Grant would have had regular army guards.

The CSA Army was already starving, and nearly starved by April of 1865. Attempting to flee to the Appalachia Mountains when it was planting rather than harvest season? Nope. Outside of a few homeless brigands, they would have surrendered or just gone home.

Davis' first response when he heard of Lincoln's assassination? "Oh my God, Andrew Johnson is President!":eek: Johnson represented to Davis his ultimate class enemy, like as if Huey Long was made President in 1932!
 
Seward's death would have made little difference (he was incapacitated for a time even OTL) as President Lafayette Foster would have immediately appointed a new Secretary of State. Foster, BTW, was at home in Norwich CT at the time, so far beyond reach of the assassins - and you can bet your life that Stanton would have given him a really massive escort for his return to Washington.
 
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