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(c. 1837 - 1908)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 44th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A married 25 year old farmer at Maplesville in Bibb County, AL, he enlisted at Randolph, AL on 24 April 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company H, 44th Alabama Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the foot in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to Winder Hospital #4 in Richmond, VA on 30 September (or 1 October) and furloughed for 30 days on 3 October 1862. He was again in a hospital in Richmond for a gunshot wound (new? old?) in July 1863, was back with his company by May 1864 but was detailed as a teamster by July. He was captured in Richmond on 3 April 1865.
References & notes
His service from the State of Alabama1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, also as G. Boling, Bowline, etc. He's also on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850, also as Bowlin.
Birth
c. 1837 in NC
Death
11/11/1908; Greenville, AL
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 31687]
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 31688]