Henry Haviland Bowles

Age 20, from Columbia, he enlisted and mustered as a Musician in Company F, 6th Maine Infantry on 15 July 1861.

He was in action with his Company at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He mustered out at the end of his enlistment on 15 August 1864 at Portland, ME.

By 1870 and to at least 1910 he was a jeweler with a store in Cherryfield, ME. He also sold musical instruments, sewing machines, bicycles, firearms and sporting goods. He was a village Selectman 1897-98 and a member of the local Grand Army of the Republic post.

His service from the State of Maine.1 His presence at Antietam from Westbrook,2 describing the mortal wounding of a fellow musician, young Charley King of the 49th Pennsylvania. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1870-1910, and The Cherryfield Register (1905). His memorial is on Findagrave.

He married Abbie Adams Wakefield (1849-1912) in January 1869 and they had 4 children.

See a lovely 1896 birds-eye-view map of Cherryfield, ME showing Bowles' shop (#29) and many other town businesses, from World Maps Online. A photograph of his c. 1880 home is online from the Maine Historical Society.

01/12/1841; Machias, ME

1916; Cherryfield, ME