Civil War Veteran
Company D, 103d Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment drummer.
Captured 20 Apr 1864 at the Battle of Plymouth, NC.
At Andersonville Prison.
Civil War Veteran Of Columbus Dies
COLUMBUS, O., May 14 -(AP)- Joshua Crawford Bowser, 97, one of Columbus' two remaining civil war veterans, died yesterday after a brief illness. Born in Armstrong County, Pa., he enlisted in the Pennsylvania volunteer infantry in 1862 at the age of 15 and was captured by Confederate troops in North Carolina two years later. He was imprisoned until after the war but, following his discharge, reenlisted and for five years was stationed at Columbus barracks as a music instructor.
From: The Times Recorder, Zanesville, Ohio, on Monday, May 15, 1944, Page 1
From Phil Lasher.∼His boyhood was spent on his father's farm until his fourteenth year, when he slipped to the recruting station in Kittanning and offered himself to his country. His widowed mother broought him home. That night the embryonic soldier crept out of the window and started for Kittanning. After following the company to the south he was accepted as a real soldier and enfolled with Company D 103rd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer to serve three years as a musician. He was discharged June 2, 1865 at Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. In subsequent years he has an aversion to talk "war," but one experience he has dared to tell--that when he was captured and sent to Andersonville Prison he weightd 180, and weighed 80 when he got out and was two years in the invalid corps as a consequence.
Company D, 103d Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment drummer.
Captured 20 Apr 1864 at the Battle of Plymouth, NC.
At Andersonville Prison.
Civil War Veteran Of Columbus Dies
COLUMBUS, O., May 14 -(AP)- Joshua Crawford Bowser, 97, one of Columbus' two remaining civil war veterans, died yesterday after a brief illness. Born in Armstrong County, Pa., he enlisted in the Pennsylvania volunteer infantry in 1862 at the age of 15 and was captured by Confederate troops in North Carolina two years later. He was imprisoned until after the war but, following his discharge, reenlisted and for five years was stationed at Columbus barracks as a music instructor.
From: The Times Recorder, Zanesville, Ohio, on Monday, May 15, 1944, Page 1
From Phil Lasher.∼His boyhood was spent on his father's farm until his fourteenth year, when he slipped to the recruting station in Kittanning and offered himself to his country. His widowed mother broought him home. That night the embryonic soldier crept out of the window and started for Kittanning. After following the company to the south he was accepted as a real soldier and enfolled with Company D 103rd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer to serve three years as a musician. He was discharged June 2, 1865 at Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. In subsequent years he has an aversion to talk "war," but one experience he has dared to tell--that when he was captured and sent to Andersonville Prison he weightd 180, and weighed 80 when he got out and was two years in the invalid corps as a consequence.
Civil War Veteran
Company D, 103d Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment drummer.
Captured 20 Apr 1864 at the Battle of Plymouth, NC.
At Andersonville Prison.
Civil War Veteran Of Columbus Dies
COLUMBUS, O., May 14 -(AP)- Joshua Crawford Bowser, 97, one of Columbus' two remaining civil war veterans, died yesterday after a brief illness. Born in Armstrong County, Pa., he enlisted in the Pennsylvania volunteer infantry in 1862 at the age of 15 and was captured by Confederate troops in North Carolina two years later. He was imprisoned until after the war but, following his discharge, reenlisted and for five years was stationed at Columbus barracks as a music instructor.
From: The Times Recorder, Zanesville, Ohio, on Monday, May 15, 1944, Page 1
From Phil Lasher.∼His boyhood was spent on his father's farm until his fourteenth year, when he slipped to the recruting station in Kittanning and offered himself to his country. His widowed mother broought him home. That night the embryonic soldier crept out of the window and started for Kittanning. After following the company to the south he was accepted as a real soldier and enfolled with Company D 103rd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer to serve three years as a musician. He was discharged June 2, 1865 at Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. In subsequent years he has an aversion to talk "war," but one experience he has dared to tell--that when he was captured and sent to Andersonville Prison he weightd 180, and weighed 80 when he got out and was two years in the invalid corps as a consequence.
Company D, 103d Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment drummer.
Captured 20 Apr 1864 at the Battle of Plymouth, NC.
At Andersonville Prison.
Civil War Veteran Of Columbus Dies
COLUMBUS, O., May 14 -(AP)- Joshua Crawford Bowser, 97, one of Columbus' two remaining civil war veterans, died yesterday after a brief illness. Born in Armstrong County, Pa., he enlisted in the Pennsylvania volunteer infantry in 1862 at the age of 15 and was captured by Confederate troops in North Carolina two years later. He was imprisoned until after the war but, following his discharge, reenlisted and for five years was stationed at Columbus barracks as a music instructor.
From: The Times Recorder, Zanesville, Ohio, on Monday, May 15, 1944, Page 1
From Phil Lasher.∼His boyhood was spent on his father's farm until his fourteenth year, when he slipped to the recruting station in Kittanning and offered himself to his country. His widowed mother broought him home. That night the embryonic soldier crept out of the window and started for Kittanning. After following the company to the south he was accepted as a real soldier and enfolled with Company D 103rd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer to serve three years as a musician. He was discharged June 2, 1865 at Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. In subsequent years he has an aversion to talk "war," but one experience he has dared to tell--that when he was captured and sent to Andersonville Prison he weightd 180, and weighed 80 when he got out and was two years in the invalid corps as a consequence.
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