George W. Bowman
Name: George W. Bowman
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 21st PA Cav., 182nd Regt.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Franklin County, PA
Enlistment Date: 01/05/1864
Company: E
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Enlisted at Charlestown, VA; Present through 04-00-1864 Absent 05-00-1864 through 09-00-1864 wounded. Present 09-00-1864 through 10-00-1864 Absent 12-12-1864 wounded in hospital; Appointed Cpl. 03-01-1864; Deserted: Hospital, York, Pa. 6/28/1864; Enlistment credited to Mercersburg, Franklin Co. Veteran Volunteer; Wounded in Action: Shady Grove, deaf from bursting of shell 6/3/1864; Third Div. Gen. Hosp. Alexandria, Va. 06-09-1864; Lincoln Hosp. New York City; Died of Wounds: Lincoln Hosp. New York City 1/23/1864
Source(s):
Soldiers’ Records for Franklin County, Pennsylvania, on the website “Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War,” Virginia Center for Digital History, University of Virginia (http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/dossiers).
