Lewis Powell (conspirator)
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Lewis Thornton Powell was an American Confederate soldier who attempted to assassinate William Henry Seward as part of the Lincoln assassination plot. Wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg, he later ser
Powell aboard USS Saugus, 1865. Photograph by Alexander Gardner
Colonel John S. Mosby
John Surratt in 1868
John Wilkes Booth in 1865
On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., one month into his second term and towards the conclusion of the American C
John Wilkes Booth shooting Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre
The Surratt boarding house, where the conspirators planned
Ford's Theatre