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[My Name Is Kate]

(01-28-2013 06:26 PM)Rob Wick Wrote:  All I'm interested in knowing is what those who seem to think that Powell was a soldier following orders would think if those orders came from the north and not the south. That's all.

I am confused by your question. And I don't know anything about Dahlgren's Raid, or what difference north and south makes. And when I said that Powell was a soldier following orders, I didn't mean to imply that because of that, he wasn't responsible for his actions. Maybe technically he was no longer a soldier, since the war was for all practical purposes over, but in his own mind, he still thought of himself as a soldier. And if he did not think of himself as a soldier at that point, then, I guess I would agree that he was acting as a cold-blooded killer. But where is the evidence that he did not think of himself as a soldier when he went to Seward's house?