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Federal (USV)

Private

Richard Bowles

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 63rd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 35 at enlistment, he and mustered in as private, Company C, on August 21, 1861.

On the Campaign

Wounded in action, slightly, leg, on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

Discharged for wounds on January 26, 1863, at Philadelphia, Pa.

References & notes

Basic information from McLernon1.

Notes

1   McLernon, Robert, Casualty List, 63rd New York Volunteer Infantry, Meagher's Irish Brigade, Antietam, Maryland; September 17, 1862, Springfield (Va): R. McLernon, 2001  [AotW citation 2323]