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Powell was pretty close mouthed. He knew that he was going to die at any rate (he had told Gillette he knew that "Death was the only way he would leave prison.") He was greatly depressed about his family and thought that he had shamed them irreversibly. This was obviously utter torture to him. He was also attempting to shield others - the Branson family I think as well; the Payne family - anyone who had aided him. He hated for them all to be dragged through the mud.... likewise he accused himself of causing Mrs. Surratt's doom. Misguided soldier he may have been, he was also extremely chivalrous.