From the Shiloh Military Park Facebook Page.
James E. Powell was born in Worcestershire, England. His family immigrated to Ohio in 1838, but James went to Texas and married. While on a hunting trip in 1843, his wife and two children were killed by Indians. In the Mexican War, he joined the 9th U.S. Infantry.
After the Mexican War, he moved to Maine and became a landowner and remarried. He rejoined the Army in 1855 as a second lieutenant in the 1st U.S. Infantry. His wife divorced him.
--Old Secesh
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