Thomas Powell
Thomas Powell enlisted in the Union army in 1861 and mustered in as a 1st lieutenant in Company E of the 65th Ohio Infantry on October 9, 1861. He earned a promotion to captain on December 1, 1862, and became the regimental chaplain on July 14, 1864. He mustered out on January 2, 1866. He married a woman named Harriet, and he died sometime before January 1884.
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| (295) | Powell, Thomas |
- Conflict Side: Union
- Role: Soldier
- Rank in: 2nd Lieutenant
- Rank out: Chaplain
- Rank highest: Chaplain
- Gender: Male
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 1
- (932) [writer] ~ Thomas Powell to Lorenzo Thomas, 21 November 1865
Regiments - Records: 1
- (54) [officer] [E] ~ 65th Ohio Infantry
SOURCES
History of Cuyahoga County, Ohio (n.p.: D. W. Ensign & Co., 1879); Civil War Pension Index, 1861-1934, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com.
