According to the passage, what was Lewis Powell's
role in the assassination of President Lincoln?
He was a conspirator responsible for
assassinating the president.
He was a conspirator to the assassination and
was directed to murder the secretary of State.
Lewis Powell was born in Alabama in 1884. His father
was a Baptist minister. He was the youngest of eight
children. The family moved to Georgia when Lewis was
just three years old. In Georgia all eight children were
educated by their father, who then became the school
master. When Lewis was a teenager the family moved to
Florida.
During the Civil War, Lewis enlisted and served in the
Confederate Army. In 1862 he was hospitalized for an
unknown sickness. He continued to fight many battles
unharmed prior to being injured in the wrist at the Battle
of Gettysburg. In July of 1863 he was captured and sent
to a Prisoner of War (POW) hospital. He escaped the
hospital, and eventually traveled to Baltimore, Maryland,
where he became involved with the Confederate Secret
Service, the Confederacy's spy agency.
In April of 1865, Lewis met with John Wilkes Booth to
conspire and lot the assassination of Linenin and othu
He was a conspirator to the assassination and
was directed to murder the vice president.
He knew about the plot but was not responsible
for participating in the actual assassinations.