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The son of a Baptist preacher, Lewis Powell joined the Florida Jasper Blues to fight for the Confederacy in 1861. He soon had a fateful encounter with John Wilkes Booth and was drawn into the plot to kidnap Abraham Lincoln. In 1865 he was tried as a conspirator in the assassination of Lincoln, during which Powell attacked and wounded Secretary of State William Seward. From these facts and other scattered details of the life of Lewis Powell (alias Lewis Payne), Richard Adicks has constructed a historical novel that moves us into the heart of the war between the North and the South and into the crosscurrents of idealism and fanaticism. Rich in the color and detail of the Civil War, this tale moves from rural Florida to Powell's baptism by fire in the early battles of the war. Wounded and captured at Gettysburg, he serves as a prisoner nurse in a field hospital until he escapes to Baltimore. There he falls in love with Mary Branson and soon becomes mired in fringe regiments doing the dirty work of the faltering cause. By 1865 he is pulled deeper into Booth's mad effort to avenge the defeated Confederacy.
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Republication in paperback and as an ebook of a Pineapple hardback originally published in 1989. A historical novel about a young Florida Confederate soldier’s role in the Lincoln assassination. Lewis Powell joined the Florida Jasper Blues in 1861. In 1865 he was tried as a conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, during which he attacked and wounded Secretary of State William Seward. Powell was mesmerized by actor John Wilkes Booth, drawn into the crosscurrents of idealism and fanaticism.
About the Author:
Richard Adicks, a sixth-generation Floridian, grew up in Lake City and now lives in Lakeland. He studied at the University of Florida and Tulane University and has taught English at Rollins College, Tulane, Georgia Tech, the University of Central Florida, and Africa University. Besides articles on literature and Florida history, he has written a history of Oviedo, Florida, where he and his wife, Mildred, lived for several years.
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- PublisherPineapple Press
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0910923655
- ISBN 13 9780910923651
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages269
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