J. A. Bowers

(? - 1862)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 15th South Carolina Infantry

In the Antietam Campaign:
Probably mortally wounded in action on the Maryland Campaign.

The remainder of the War:
Originally buried "along the west side and in cemetery at Frederick [Maryland]". Probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Burial information from Pruett1. He is also listed among the Confederate soldiers buried at Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Frederick, MD, and may still be there.

Death Date: 10/10/1862 Death Place: Frederick, MD Burial Place: Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

Notes

1 Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials , Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 4575]

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