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Federal (USV)

Private

James Monroe Bowen

(c. 1829 - 1909)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 30 year old operative (factory machine operator) in Killingsly, Windham County, CT. He enlisted on 9 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 27 September.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at hospitals in Frederick, MD, and Philadelphia, PA and discharged for disability on 6 February 1863.

After the War

By 1870 he was a farm worker in Enfield, Hartford County, CT. In 1880 he was a stone mason back in Killingly.

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson.1 His service from the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Hannah Humes (1830-1886) and they had 9 children between 1845 and 1875.

Birth

c. 1829 in RI

Death

05/12/1909; Wilmantic, CT; burial in Grove Street Cemetery, Putnam, CT

Notes

1 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 136 [AotW citation 16481]

2 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, p. 334 [AotW citation 30584]

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