22 JOHN WESLEY POWELL. 



After the destruction of General Hood's army, Major Powell 

 remained in Nashville some time until the sixteen batteries under 

 his command were once more thoroughly equipped with horses and 

 munitions. 



Early in the spring of 1865 he asked for orders to report to the 

 Commander of the Army of the Tennessee, General Howard, and 

 receiving such orders, he was soon at his old post. In the mean- 

 time the Confederacy was gradually falling to pieces, and when 

 Major Powell arrived at Louisville he was confident the end was 

 near at hand. His term of enlistment had expired also, and gen- 

 eral orders were issued permitting the troops to go home. With 

 his wife he went to Detroit to visit his wife's family for a few weeks, 

 and then to Wheaton, Illinois, the home of his father. 



