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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Thomas Miller Bowie

(1841 - ?)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 12th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 21 year old farmer living with his parents and 6 or more siblings on the family farm in Copiah County, MS. He enlisted at Hazlehurst, Copiah County on 9 March 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 12th Mississippi Infantry at Corinth, MS on 12 May 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was in a Richmond, VA hospital to 24 December 1862, then back to duty. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound on a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

1841 in MS

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 29755]

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