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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Jonathan R. Bowen

(c. 1837 - 1863)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 18th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 24 year old farmer, he enlisted on 16 July 1861 at Wilmington, NC and mustered there on 20 August as a Private in Company G (the Wilmington Light Infantry), 8th North Carolina Infantry. They were re-designated the 18th Infantry on 14 November 1861.

On the Campaign

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.

The rest of the War

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 19 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was formally exchanged on 10 November but died of disease on 1 January 1863 at Camp Gregg near Fredericksburg, VA.

His mother Elizabeth Garrason (remarried?) filed a claim for his final pay of $22.36 in June 1863, which was probably paid in November 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2

Birth

c. 1837; New Hanover County, NC

Death

01/01/1863; Fredericksburg, VA

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 34210]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #215 [AotW citation 34211]

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