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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John Leander Powell

(1821 - 1885)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 6th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A Burke County farmer, most often known as Leander, he enlisted at age 40 in Morganton, NC in Company D, 6th North Carolina Infantry on 18 February 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.

The rest of the War

He was listed as present or accounted for through December 1864.

References & notes

Basic information from Iobst1, who has him as Leander Powell. Details and his full name from family genealogists. A post-War photo of him is online from William Mason on WikiTree. Thanks to Devan Sommerville for scrubbing through the volume, extracting and transcribing the roster data for AotW.

Birth

1821; Burke County, NC

Death

12/27/1885; Morganton, NC

Notes

1 Iobst, Richard William, and Louis H. Manarin, Wade Lucas, The Bloody Sixth : the Sixth North Carolina Regiment, Confederate States of America, Raleigh: North Carolina Confederate Centennial Commission, 1965, pp. 335 - 346 [AotW citation 6346]

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