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This major from Mason City (Mason County) with the 2nd West Virginia Cavalry led 20 troops in capturing a Confederate camp of 500 at Sinking Creek Valley, Virginia, on 26 November 1862. Powell (1825-1904) was an iron maker before the war, at the iron works at Benwood (Marshall County); Ironton, Ohio; and Mason City (Mason County).
Postwar, he worked and lived in Belleville, Illinois.
