Edmund Bowers, Jr.

He was orphaned when his father died in 1855, and in 1860 was 18 years old and lived with his sister Eliza on the John Emanuel farm in the Barnwell District, SC. He enlisted on 20 July 1861 at Summerville, SC and mustered as a Private in Company H (later C), First South Carolina Infantry.

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 suffering a "flesh wound by minie ball through the calf of left leg."

He was in hospitals in Richmond, VA from 2 October to 16 March 1863 except for 30 days' furlough in November, then returned to duty. He was slightly wounded in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864 and again, on 30 September 1864, by a gunshot to his left hip. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond on 2 October, and furloughed home for 30 days on 28 October. He was back with his company by December 1864 and was surrendered and paroled with them on 9 April 1865 at Appomattox Court House, VA.

In 1870 he was a farmer at Allendale in Barnwell County, SC but by 1880 and to at least 1900 he was a farm laborer there. In 1910 he was doing odd jobs at Allendale (Allendale County was formed out of Barnwell and Hampton Counties in 1919).

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, with Sharpsburg detail from the Memoirs.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Eliza Brown (1843-1935) and they had 2 daughters.

c. 1842; Allendale District, SC

01/21/1924; Allendale County, SC; burial in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Fairfax, SC