Guinea Station

What if John Wilkes Booth’s path to assassination began years before Lincoln—with Stonewall Jackson?

As the Civil War tears America apart, actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth becomes convinced that conventional warfare cannot save the South. Charismatic, theatrical, and increasingly consumed by his own vision of history, Booth assembles a clandestine group to wage a different kind of war—one fought through sabotage, deception, and assassination.

But Confederate General Stonewall Jackson discovers what Booth is doing. A devout soldier who believes victory without honor is no victory at all, Jackson condemns Booth and his methods. Their confrontation sets two very different visions of the Confederate cause against each other: Jackson’s faith and military honor versus Booth’s belief that a single spectacular act of violence can change history.

When Jackson is mortally wounded at Chancellorsville and dies at Guinea Station, the truth about Booth’s activities threatens to disappear with him. But Jackson has left behind a letter warning Robert E. Lee about Booth’s secret network and its possible connection to Jefferson Davis.

Thirteen years later, the forgotten letter resurfaces.

Now President Ulysses S. Grant must decide whether exposing the truth will finally deliver justice—or reopen the wounds of a nation still struggling to heal.

Blending historical figures with an imagined conspiracy hidden in the gaps of the historical record, Guinea Station asks a provocative question: What if the assassination of Abraham Lincoln was not the beginning of John Wilkes Booth’s secret war, but its final act?