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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John Bowers

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 47, European born, he enlisted at Leesburg, VA on 1 September 1862, as a (paid?) substitute for Private William Madison Hobdy, and mustered as a Private in Company C, 44th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was slightly wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured there.

The rest of the War

He signed a parole on 27 September 1862 indicating he did not want to be exchanged and returned to the Confederate Army, and was allowed to travel in any loyal state. He was listed as a deserter by his regiment and never returned to them.

References & notes

His service from the State of Alabama1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He's also on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862.

Birth

c. 1815

Notes

1 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx> [AotW citation 31626]

2 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 31627]

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