Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Eugene Cole Powell, student 1858-1859

Powell, brother of Albert Theodore Powell, attended New York University Medical College after leaving R-MC and graduated in 1861. He enlisted in Co. I of the 3rd VA cavalry on July 5, 1861 as a private. He spent much of the war assigned as a hospital steward, serving in Atlanta and Macon, Georgia in 1863 and 1864.

After the war, he returned to Dinwiddie County, VA where he was a physician and served as superintendent of public schools for many years. He died on May 18, 1920 and is buried in Good Shepherd Cemetery in Dinwiddie County, VA.

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