Company A, (Mosby's) 43rd Battalion Partisan Cavalry, Dept. of Northern Virginia, C.S.A.

Matriculated February 17, 1864 from Albemarle County, VA., he was in the Virginia Military Institute Class of 1867.

As a Private in Company A, he was a member of the Cadets who fought in the Battle of New Market, VA. on May 15, 1864.
Enlisted in 1865, he was mustered into Company A, (Mosby's) 43rd Battalion Partisan Cavalry as a Private.

Postwar he was a Farmer and Lumber Dealer.
Listed on 1898 roster of C.S.A. soldiers in District #4, Fauquier County, VA.
Attended 3 of Mosby's Rangers reunions:
1905 in Fredericksburg, VA.;
1920 in Culpeper, VA.;
1925 in Front Royal, VA.
Died in University Hospital, Charlottesville, Va.

Father of 1st: Mamie; 2nd: Champ Taliaferro; 3rd: Ellen Fitzhugh; 4th: Ella C.; 5th: William T. Bowen; 6th: Henry M. Bowen; 7th: Georgia C.; 8th: Charles H. Bowen; 9th: John McGill Bowen.

Son of William A. Bowen and Ellen Dade Fitzhugh.

Mosby's Cavalry Regiment, formerly the 43rd Battalion, was organized in December, 1864. The battalion was formed in June, 1863, with five companies, later increased to eight. The unit served behind Federal lines in Northern Virginia and was the most effective command of its kind. The enemy forces were never safe and the area became known as "Mosby's Confederacy".

∼The Washington Post, Mar. 8, 1928, page 3:

"Charlottesville, March 7.--Henry C. Bowen, of Remington, Va., Confederate veteran, died yesterday at a local hospital. The body was taken to Remington, where the funeral will be held from the Episcopal Church.

Mr. Bowen was born in Fauquier county April 3, 1847. while a student at Virginia Polytechnic Institute he left his studies to enter the Confederate army at the age of 16, and served under Col. John S. Mosby as a member of Mosby's 'Rangers.'

Mr. Bowen was married soon after the war to Miss Georgia Rothrock, of Fredericksburg, Va. Seven children survive, four sons and three daughters -- W. F. Bowen, of Fedwell, N.C.; H. M. Bowen, of Greenwood, Va.; J. M. and C. H. Bowen, of Remington; Mrs. C. S. Brittle, of Warrenton; Mrs. L. M. Brittle, of Remington; and Mrs. M. L. Mickley, of Charlotte, N.C."

Obituary provided by:

Kathleen Bowen Simons
Falls Church, VA