Plausability, some section of CSA arranges Lincoln's Murder

No. There is NO Constitutional provision for picking a new vice-president until the 25(?)th amendment in the 1960s. They'd have to pass a new amendment to do it, and while that's possible, it's not going to be quick or easy.

I mean my point is more than anything else a wartime assassination is going to make people willing to allow an extra constitutional appointment simply to make sure that there's a chain of command.
 
If we go with the Booth conspiracy being supported by the Confederates, you could probably give him more men for the job. I believe that someone apparently tried breaking into Grant's traincar on that day, so it could be related.
 
Going back to the original question, my doubts regarding a governmental plan are:

  1. why no more people, e.g. two men hit quads for every target;
  2. why no diversionary operation, like e.g. a rehash of NY fire plot;
  3. the choice of the targets.
About the third point. You have enough personnel to handle three targets. The first two are Lincoln and Johnson, to provoke a severe constitutional crisis. The third is... why Seward and not Stanton, rabid enemy of the south and minister of war? I find Seward choice instead of Stanton a give away of an amateurish mind behind the plot [1].

[1] or of something much much darker. I know this forum stance on "conspiracy theories" and therefore I do not elaborate further, but you all know what I am not writing about.
 
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