"Alias Paine"

[BettyO]

Did Powell ever tell Eckert, Doster, or anyone else specifically who give him the order to kill Seward?

Powell told Gillette that he was "acting on orders received from the Confederate Government - he did not say WHO gave the orders - but it has been assumed (i.e. Hall, Brennan, Tidwell, Gaddy) that officials high up in the Confederate hierarchy - heads of the government there; i.e. Benjamin, Seddon, Stephens, perhaps even Davis, et. al...... Powell did NOT name any particular individual other than Booth - and he was hedgy about that as well.