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H.T. Fowler

H.T. Fowler

Federal (USV)

Lieutenant Colonel

Henry Thomas Fowler

(1819 - 1877)

Home State: Connecticut

Command Billet: Commanding Regiment

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 63rd New York Infantry

 

see his Battle Report

Before Antietam

Age 41, he enrolled on 28 October 1861 in New York City and mustered as Lieutenant Colonel of the 63rd New York Infantry on 4 November.

On the Campaign

He later reported that

after the first advance [17 Sept] from the meadow upon the plowed field, the Colonel not being present, as a necessity I, without orders, assumed command.
He was wounded in the arm in the combat at the Sunken Road shortly after. As Major Bentley, and all but one of the other officers of the Regiment were either killed or wounded, Captain O'Neill, Company A, the only unwounded officer present at that time, took command when Fowler was carried off.

The rest of the War

He was commissioned Colonel to date from 25 October 1862 but was still absent, recovering, up to the battle of Gettysburg. He may have lost his arm to amputation and was discharged for his Antietam wounds on 4 July 1863.

After the War

He was a government employee in Washington, DC.

References & notes

His service from the Adjutant General1 and Conyngham.2 Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph with two other officers (not named), at the Library of Congress.

He married Mary White Perkins (1819-1888) in about 1845.

He was one of 6 brothers who served in the War. Five for the Union (one killed, one died of wounds) and one in the Confederate Navy.

More on the Web

See more about the 6 Fowler brothers [pdf] in a nice piece by Tracy Tomaselli, online from the Guilford Preservation Alliance.

Birth

11/13/1819; Guilford, CT

Death

01/19/1877; Guilford, CT; burial in Alderbrook Cemetery, Guilford, CT

Notes

1   State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1901, Ser. No. 27, pg. 58  [AotW citation 26162]

2   Conyngham, David Power, The Irish Brigade and Its Campaigns, New York: William McSorley & Co., 1867, pg. 566  [AotW citation 26170]