I'm John Bachelors with Patrick K O'Donnell, the unbankished, the untold

the untold story of Lincoln's Special Forces, the manhunt for Mosby's Rangers and the Shadow War that forged America's special operations.

Patrick's here and he's just introduced us to one of Mosby's Rangers.

His name is Louis Powell. He's called Terrible Pal by his colleagues and he now escorts Blazer the

commander of the scouts to Richmond as a prisoner of war. Quickly

Louis Powell the keen-eared among our audience recognize that name. Who is he,

Patrick? He's one of the Lincoln conspirators who works with Booth and what happens is in December after Powell returns from

Richmond he went down to Richmond to not only deliver Richard Blazer to prison down there but it was also a cover for him to work with

his handlers in the Confederate Secret Service and they are basically have devised

one of the most daring missions of the Civil War a

mission to to capture and bring back President Abraham Lincoln and

Powell returns to Mosby's Confederacy where he doesn't go on anymore raids after that.

He's operating outside of Warrington and and then suddenly what we find is Powell decides to that the war, this is the cover story, that the war is too hard for him and he just goes to union lines and becomes a civilian and he takes the oath and then suddenly he finds himself back in Baltimore

with the Confederate Secret Service under their safe house and protection and they immediately communicate

with John Wilkes Booth and his group. And this isn't, what you see is there's an extremely large organization that's

well funded to kidnap the president. It's not just Booth and a couple guys, you know,

trying to come up with a plan to kidnap the president's. Hundreds of people that

are involved with safe houses, with communication between the Secret Service.

You know, there's even a mysterious woman, the Frenchman, that moves in and out, that provides

career service and instructions to the group and gold. and there's a lot of financing going on here and it's a lot of financing

going on here and it's it's an open secret I have evidence of that Powell his company, knew exactly that there was a kidnapping

that was going on.

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