Zephaniah Anson Fowler

Age 40, he enrolled as 2nd Lieutenant of Company E, 6th Georgia Infantry on 27 May 1861. He was elected First Lieutenant on 16 April 1862.

He was listed as missing in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was promoted to Captain 26 March 1862 when Captain Cleveland was appointed Major. He was elected to the Georgia state legislature in 1863, 1864 and 1865, and may have been granted leave from his Company to attend sessions. He resigned his commission after April 1864.

He owned a livery stable and was in real estate. He was Mayor of Pelham, GA in 1882 and was a Justice of the Peace for Butler, GA by 1887.

Service information from Henderson.1 His status at Sharpsburg from a casualty list for the Regiment printed in the Southern Recorder (Milledgeville, GA) on 21 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists, especially GGGranddaughter Millie Stewart. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph with his wife originally shared on a Glover family website [now gone].

He married Elizabeth Ann "Betsy" Glover (c.1822-1897) in June 1840, and they had 9 (5?) children.

09/25/1820; Warren County, GA

11/16/1893; Butler, GA; burial in Butler Memorial Cemetery, Butler, GA