A Different Viewpoint of Lew Powell's Character

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Ed,

Any idea who gave the order that sent Harney on his trip to D.C.? He surely wasn't a lone wolf. You know me, I'm a fan of Come Retribution and would love to make Judah Benjamin the bad guy.

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I should also have added that blowing up the White House involved doing it when there was a Cabinet meeting going on - hence the decapitation of the executive branch. Booth's intention was the same thing with killing Lincoln, Johnson, and Seward simultaneously. There's a similarity to me there - I'm just not sure that Booth acted with Confederate sanctions at that point.

Harney's mission had probably been approved several days before the fall of Richmond in order for him to have made it as far as he did before capture.