Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Lewis Payne Powell” in alphabetic letter S, entry group 6, entry seward-william-henry of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:
... in some way, that the Confederate leaders, in the confusion of the trying moment, might seize the reins of the national government.
On the evening when President Lincoln was shot (April 14, 1865), Lewis Payne Powell , a Confederate soldier of Florida, went to the house of Secretary Seward, who was then severely ill, with the pretence that he was a messenger from the minister's physician.
Refused admission by th...
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