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BettyO · (This post was last modified: 09-10-2013 06:47 PM by BettyO.)

Yes, Kate. He spelled it "P-a-i-n-e" --- more or less phonetically.

Here is a signature comparison from the military records of his service with Mosby as "L. T. Powell" and the signature on his Oath of Allegiance as "L. Paine."

I also own this version of the Washington Weekly Chronicle dated July 15, 1865

Rather a very unflattering drawing of Lew - with a rather heavy moustache (wouldn't have any need for that phoney one!) - as JAMES Thornton Powell.....don't know where the James comes from other than his supposed signature while staying at the Revere House in NY as "James Hall" - (according to Mr. James O. Hall, "Absolutely No Connection!" as he used to tell me.....)