He graduated from the University of Michigan and completed post-graduate work at Union College in Schenectady, New York, in 1862.

In the second year of the American Civil War, Powers enlisted into the United States Army as a private.

He fought in the Third Battle of Chattanooga and in the Atlanta Campaign before returning with his regiment to Tennessee for much of the remainder of the war.

In 1865, Powers settled in Noxubee County, Mississippi, as a cotton planter, later becoming Sheriff.

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