~~~~~~~~~~~~ THE LINCOLN CONSPIRATORS ~~~~~~~~~~

JOHN WILKES BOOTH

During the US Civil War, a band of Confederate conspirators made plans to kidnap

President Abraham Lincoln.

He was originally to be traded in a prisoner exchange, for several important

 Confederate soldiers & officers. The plan was thwarted when President Lincoln changed his plans on the night the kidnapping was to take place.

Then in April of 1865, a new plan was developed, culminating in the assassination of

Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater on the evening of April 14, 1865.

"MY WORDS BUT A WHISPER... IN DEAFNESS,  A  S H O U T  !"   [Jethro Tull]

CONSPIRATORS, SAMUEL BLAND ARNOLD, DAVID HEROLD

LEWIS THORNTON POWELL and THOMAS H. HARBIN (alias Thomas Wilson) HARBIN OWNED A HOTEL & TAVERN UNTIL 1861.

LEWIS POWELL AFTER BEING KICKED IN THE JAW BY A MULE.  THIS IS AN EARLY PICTURE AND SHOWS BOTH SIDES OF HIS FACE SWOLLEN.

LEWIS POWELL

POWELL'S AGE IN THIS PHOTOGRAPH, APPEARS TO INDICATE BOOTH AND POWELL WERE FRIENDS A LOT LONGER THAN PORTRAYED IN HISTORICAL RECORDS SINCE IT WAS FOUND IN A BOOTH FAMILY ALBUM.

NEW YORKER,  WILLIAM HENREY SEWARD, PORTRAYED BY HISTORY AS A VERY CORRUPT POLITICIAN, WAS A TARGET OF THE CONSPIRACY.

ON THE NIGHT OF THE LINCOLN ASSASSINATION, POWELL ATTACKED  AND BADLY INJURED SEVERAL PEOPLE AT SECRETARY OF STATE SEWARD'S HOME.  

LEWIS POWELL aka PAYNE /PAINE

HAD A JAW PROBLEM FROM BEING KICKED IN THE FACE BY A MULE WHEN YOUNG. IN THESE PAST 2 PHOTOS, THE LEFT SIDE OF HIS FACE SHOWS THE LINGERING INJURY.

LEWIS THORNTON POWELL

(PHOTO TAKEN BY GARDNER ON THE USS MONTAUK)

POWELL WAS A SOLDIER FOR THE CONFEDERACY, WOUNDED & IMPRISONED AT GETTYSBURG, WHO AFTER ESCAPE JOINED JOHN S. MOSBY'S RANGERS. HE WAS TALL AND STRONG