Speaking of which, in Omega Glory’s listed passage, Booth perhaps should have recognized that brutus wasn’t really considered to be a great guy. At best, he was a flawed hero, and many commentors, even those politically symapthetic to him, were not all that well-disposed to his reputation.
I took a tour of Booth’s escape route a few years ago. He did indeed see newspapers during the twelve days he spent as a fugitive, and was taken aback at how much condemnation - even in the Southern press - he came in for.