Enlisted as a private May 14, 1862 in the 50th Georgia Infantry, Company F, CSA. He suffered a flesh wound in his shoulder at Gettysburg, PA where he was captured. Assigned to duty gathering conscripts & forwarding to command, by rder Comdr. State Ga. He later appeared on a roll of non-commissioned officers and privates employed on extra duty at Macon GA during Jan to June, 1864. Paroled at Macon, Ga. in 1865.
His obituary was published in the The Cairo Messenger on 10 Jan 1913 in Cairo, Grady County, Georgia:
"Death Of A Good Man. Mr. J. H. Powell, a very prominent citizen, of Cyrene, Ga., died in this place at 9:30. a.m. Tuesday last. He had been brought here, for medical treatment of a malignant cancer, from which he had been a great sufferer, for years. But the trouble had proceeded too far, for remedies to do any good, with a man of his advanced age -- seventy-two years.
Mr. Powell was a fine old time southern gentleman, of that class very few representatives of which are now left on earth -- more's the pity. He served in the confederate army during the war of the sixties, a gallant soldier under Lee, and was seriously wounded in the battle of Gettysburg. He was a very influential citizen of his section, one of the founders (we are informed) of Cyrene Institute, toward which (we hear) he was a liberal contributor, and in his death his entire community will suffer a sad loss.
He leaves two sons and seven daughters to mourn their bereavement, as well as a host of sadly sympathizing friends."
His obituary was published in the The Cairo Messenger on 10 Jan 1913 in Cairo, Grady County, Georgia:
"Death Of A Good Man. Mr. J. H. Powell, a very prominent citizen, of Cyrene, Ga., died in this place at 9:30. a.m. Tuesday last. He had been brought here, for medical treatment of a malignant cancer, from which he had been a great sufferer, for years. But the trouble had proceeded too far, for remedies to do any good, with a man of his advanced age -- seventy-two years.
Mr. Powell was a fine old time southern gentleman, of that class very few representatives of which are now left on earth -- more's the pity. He served in the confederate army during the war of the sixties, a gallant soldier under Lee, and was seriously wounded in the battle of Gettysburg. He was a very influential citizen of his section, one of the founders (we are informed) of Cyrene Institute, toward which (we hear) he was a liberal contributor, and in his death his entire community will suffer a sad loss.
He leaves two sons and seven daughters to mourn their bereavement, as well as a host of sadly sympathizing friends."
Enlisted as a private May 14, 1862 in the 50th Georgia Infantry, Company F, CSA. He suffered a flesh wound in his shoulder at Gettysburg, PA where he was captured. Assigned to duty gathering conscripts & forwarding to command, by rder Comdr. State Ga. He later appeared on a roll of non-commissioned officers and privates employed on extra duty at Macon GA during Jan to June, 1864. Paroled at Macon, Ga. in 1865.
His obituary was published in the The Cairo Messenger on 10 Jan 1913 in Cairo, Grady County, Georgia:
"Death Of A Good Man. Mr. J. H. Powell, a very prominent citizen, of Cyrene, Ga., died in this place at 9:30. a.m. Tuesday last. He had been brought here, for medical treatment of a malignant cancer, from which he had been a great sufferer, for years. But the trouble had proceeded too far, for remedies to do any good, with a man of his advanced age -- seventy-two years.
Mr. Powell was a fine old time southern gentleman, of that class very few representatives of which are now left on earth -- more's the pity. He served in the confederate army during the war of the sixties, a gallant soldier under Lee, and was seriously wounded in the battle of Gettysburg. He was a very influential citizen of his section, one of the founders (we are informed) of Cyrene Institute, toward which (we hear) he was a liberal contributor, and in his death his entire community will suffer a sad loss.
He leaves two sons and seven daughters to mourn their bereavement, as well as a host of sadly sympathizing friends."
His obituary was published in the The Cairo Messenger on 10 Jan 1913 in Cairo, Grady County, Georgia:
"Death Of A Good Man. Mr. J. H. Powell, a very prominent citizen, of Cyrene, Ga., died in this place at 9:30. a.m. Tuesday last. He had been brought here, for medical treatment of a malignant cancer, from which he had been a great sufferer, for years. But the trouble had proceeded too far, for remedies to do any good, with a man of his advanced age -- seventy-two years.
Mr. Powell was a fine old time southern gentleman, of that class very few representatives of which are now left on earth -- more's the pity. He served in the confederate army during the war of the sixties, a gallant soldier under Lee, and was seriously wounded in the battle of Gettysburg. He was a very influential citizen of his section, one of the founders (we are informed) of Cyrene Institute, toward which (we hear) he was a liberal contributor, and in his death his entire community will suffer a sad loss.
He leaves two sons and seven daughters to mourn their bereavement, as well as a host of sadly sympathizing friends."
