Submitted photo June 30, 1850 – June 29, 1929 This Maine veteran was “hands down” the youngest of all Pine Tree Staters to have done service or become embroiled in the Civil War, being at the time age ten. However, he accompanied his father during the elder Powell’s service during the Mexican War, at age five! Enough ancestral data and eventual legendary fragments have survived via family tradition, oral and written, to sketch in a fairly credible background for our Jimmy Powell. Today, some three or four generations since are in basic agreement about the James E. Powells I and II. To tell a complete story, a little background regarding his father, James I, needs to be given.