4200 x 5880 px | 35,6 x 49,8 cm | 14 x 19,6 inches | 300dpi
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Conspirator Lewis Powell in irons on board the USS Saugus at the Washington Navy Yard in April 1865 following the assassination of US President Abraham Lincoln. Powell (1844 - 1865), also known as Lewis Payne or Lewis Paine, was one of a number of people involved in the plot to simultaneously kill Lincoln and other Union leaders on the night of April 14. While John Wilkes Booth succeeded in fatally shooting Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, Powell failed in a bid to murder Secretary of State William H Seward at Seward's home. Powell forced his way into Seward's bedroom, where he was recovering from a carriage accident, and repeatedly stabbed him but Seward survived the attack. Powell, a former Confederate soldier, fled the scene but was subsequently captured, tried and sentenced to death by a military tribunal. He was hanged on July 7 with fellow convicted conspirators David Herold, George Atzerodt and Mary Surratt. Photo by Alexander Gardner (1821 - 1882).
