Bailey Anderson Bowen

He enrolled in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and was appointed and mustered as 2nd Lieutenant of Company C, 13th Alabama Infantry on 19 July. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 20 May (or 1 June) 1862.

He was with his company in action on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was listed as present in every engagement of the regiment for the rest of the war. He was promoted to Captain on 11 November (to date from 2 July) 1864 and was surrendered and paroled with his company at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

In 1870 he was a blacksmith living on Robert Hill's farm at Nixburg in Coosa County, AL but by 1880 was a farmer in Coosa County. In 1900 he was farming at Childersburg in Talladega County, AL and he'd retired there by 1910.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Ann Rouse (1833-1908) in December 1874 and they had a son Carl (1875-1942). He married again, Annie Laura Pearson Wood (1866-1909) in April 1909; she died 3 months later.

02/14/1833 in SC

09/30/1911; Childersburg, AL; burial in Childersburg Cemetery, Childersburg, AL