Thank you very much, BettyO.
I find Powell mysterious and fascinating, along with Mary Surratt. Something about their roles in the tragedy haunts me, I can't figure out what it is. Two and two doesn't add up.
Ironically, the people who had every right to hold a grudge against Lewis-the Seward family-apparently never did.
During the attack, Secretary Seward is said to have felt strangely detached from the whole thing as if he was viewing it all from a dream. He said he mostly remembered looking up at Powell through a haze of blood and thinking how nice looking he was, and how fine his clothing was.
He was disfigured for life, his son almost died, and his wife did die a few weeks later but he never excoriated Lewis in print.
Something I've Wondered About....
