Court for Owls
Court for Owls by Richard Adicks is a historical novel published by Globe Pequot Publishing on April 21, 2013. This edition spans 272 pages and is presented in English. The narrative follows Lewis Powell, the son of a Baptist preacher, who joins the Florida Jasper Blues to fight for the Confederacy in 1861. The story delves into his fateful encounter with John Wilkes Booth and his subsequent involvement in the plot to kidnap Abraham Lincoln, culminating in his trial as a conspirator in Lincoln’s assassination.
Readers will find a richly detailed portrayal of the Civil War, as the novel explores Powell’s journey from rural Florida to the battlefields, including his experiences at Gettysburg and his time as a prisoner nurse. The narrative captures the complexities of idealism and fanaticism during this tumultuous period, as Powell becomes increasingly entangled in the desperate efforts of fringe regiments fighting for a faltering cause. The book provides insight into the personal and historical events that shaped Powell’s life and the broader conflict between the North and the South.
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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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