Civil War: Company K and Field & Staff, 67th Indiana Infantry
Stephen Bowers was born at Wilmington, Dearborn County, Indiana, March 3, 1832. He was a 30-year-old resident at Brownstown, Jackson County, Indiana, when he enlisted at Madison, Indiana, on August 20, 1862, with a commission as a 1st Lieutenant. That same day he was mustered into Company K, 67th Indiana Infantry. Lieutenant Bowers was transferred from Company K to Field & Staff when he became the regiment's Chaplain September 1, 1862. Citing health issues, Chaplain Bowers resigned his commission May 4, 1863.
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"Stephen Bowers was born March 3, 1832, in Dearborn County, Indiana; is a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and of late years an editor. He enlisted in the 67th Indiana Infantry in August 1861 [sic, 1862], and served as a 1st Lieutenant and Chaplain in the Department of the Ohio; was in three battles in Kentucky; resigned in August 1862 [sic, May 4, 1863], on account of ill-health; in civil life, comrade Bowers entered the Indiana Conference in 1856, and has continued in the active work of the ministry for over twenty years, filling several of the most important positions in his Church; was awarded the degree of Master of Arts by the Indiana State University, and that of Doctor of Philosophy from Willamette University; was connected with the U.S. Geological Survey in 1867, with headquarters at Santa Barbara, Cal.; was afterwards engaged in scientific work in Wisconsin for the Bureau of Ethnology in Washington; since which time the doctor has devoted himself to editorial work, first on the Christian Herald, and afterwards editor and proprietor of the Beloit daily Outlook; later on, removing to Nebraska, he started a paper in Falls City, where he remained a year and a half, when he returned to California and purchased the Ventura Free Press; the editing and publishing of which has occupied his time and attention for the past three years. Comrade Bowers is a member of Cushing Post, No. 44 [Grand Army of the Republic], at his place of residence, San Buenaventura, Cal."
(Ward, Wm. [ed.], Records of Members of the Grand Army of the Republic: With a Complete Account of the Twentieth National Encampment. H. S. Crocker & Co., San Francisco, 1886. pp 330-331)
Stephen Bowers was born at Wilmington, Dearborn County, Indiana, March 3, 1832. He was a 30-year-old resident at Brownstown, Jackson County, Indiana, when he enlisted at Madison, Indiana, on August 20, 1862, with a commission as a 1st Lieutenant. That same day he was mustered into Company K, 67th Indiana Infantry. Lieutenant Bowers was transferred from Company K to Field & Staff when he became the regiment's Chaplain September 1, 1862. Citing health issues, Chaplain Bowers resigned his commission May 4, 1863.
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"Stephen Bowers was born March 3, 1832, in Dearborn County, Indiana; is a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and of late years an editor. He enlisted in the 67th Indiana Infantry in August 1861 [sic, 1862], and served as a 1st Lieutenant and Chaplain in the Department of the Ohio; was in three battles in Kentucky; resigned in August 1862 [sic, May 4, 1863], on account of ill-health; in civil life, comrade Bowers entered the Indiana Conference in 1856, and has continued in the active work of the ministry for over twenty years, filling several of the most important positions in his Church; was awarded the degree of Master of Arts by the Indiana State University, and that of Doctor of Philosophy from Willamette University; was connected with the U.S. Geological Survey in 1867, with headquarters at Santa Barbara, Cal.; was afterwards engaged in scientific work in Wisconsin for the Bureau of Ethnology in Washington; since which time the doctor has devoted himself to editorial work, first on the Christian Herald, and afterwards editor and proprietor of the Beloit daily Outlook; later on, removing to Nebraska, he started a paper in Falls City, where he remained a year and a half, when he returned to California and purchased the Ventura Free Press; the editing and publishing of which has occupied his time and attention for the past three years. Comrade Bowers is a member of Cushing Post, No. 44 [Grand Army of the Republic], at his place of residence, San Buenaventura, Cal."
(Ward, Wm. [ed.], Records of Members of the Grand Army of the Republic: With a Complete Account of the Twentieth National Encampment. H. S. Crocker & Co., San Francisco, 1886. pp 330-331)
Civil War: Company K and Field & Staff, 67th Indiana Infantry
Stephen Bowers was born at Wilmington, Dearborn County, Indiana, March 3, 1832. He was a 30-year-old resident at Brownstown, Jackson County, Indiana, when he enlisted at Madison, Indiana, on August 20, 1862, with a commission as a 1st Lieutenant. That same day he was mustered into Company K, 67th Indiana Infantry. Lieutenant Bowers was transferred from Company K to Field & Staff when he became the regiment's Chaplain September 1, 1862. Citing health issues, Chaplain Bowers resigned his commission May 4, 1863.
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"Stephen Bowers was born March 3, 1832, in Dearborn County, Indiana; is a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and of late years an editor. He enlisted in the 67th Indiana Infantry in August 1861 [sic, 1862], and served as a 1st Lieutenant and Chaplain in the Department of the Ohio; was in three battles in Kentucky; resigned in August 1862 [sic, May 4, 1863], on account of ill-health; in civil life, comrade Bowers entered the Indiana Conference in 1856, and has continued in the active work of the ministry for over twenty years, filling several of the most important positions in his Church; was awarded the degree of Master of Arts by the Indiana State University, and that of Doctor of Philosophy from Willamette University; was connected with the U.S. Geological Survey in 1867, with headquarters at Santa Barbara, Cal.; was afterwards engaged in scientific work in Wisconsin for the Bureau of Ethnology in Washington; since which time the doctor has devoted himself to editorial work, first on the Christian Herald, and afterwards editor and proprietor of the Beloit daily Outlook; later on, removing to Nebraska, he started a paper in Falls City, where he remained a year and a half, when he returned to California and purchased the Ventura Free Press; the editing and publishing of which has occupied his time and attention for the past three years. Comrade Bowers is a member of Cushing Post, No. 44 [Grand Army of the Republic], at his place of residence, San Buenaventura, Cal."
(Ward, Wm. [ed.], Records of Members of the Grand Army of the Republic: With a Complete Account of the Twentieth National Encampment. H. S. Crocker & Co., San Francisco, 1886. pp 330-331)
Stephen Bowers was born at Wilmington, Dearborn County, Indiana, March 3, 1832. He was a 30-year-old resident at Brownstown, Jackson County, Indiana, when he enlisted at Madison, Indiana, on August 20, 1862, with a commission as a 1st Lieutenant. That same day he was mustered into Company K, 67th Indiana Infantry. Lieutenant Bowers was transferred from Company K to Field & Staff when he became the regiment's Chaplain September 1, 1862. Citing health issues, Chaplain Bowers resigned his commission May 4, 1863.
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"Stephen Bowers was born March 3, 1832, in Dearborn County, Indiana; is a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and of late years an editor. He enlisted in the 67th Indiana Infantry in August 1861 [sic, 1862], and served as a 1st Lieutenant and Chaplain in the Department of the Ohio; was in three battles in Kentucky; resigned in August 1862 [sic, May 4, 1863], on account of ill-health; in civil life, comrade Bowers entered the Indiana Conference in 1856, and has continued in the active work of the ministry for over twenty years, filling several of the most important positions in his Church; was awarded the degree of Master of Arts by the Indiana State University, and that of Doctor of Philosophy from Willamette University; was connected with the U.S. Geological Survey in 1867, with headquarters at Santa Barbara, Cal.; was afterwards engaged in scientific work in Wisconsin for the Bureau of Ethnology in Washington; since which time the doctor has devoted himself to editorial work, first on the Christian Herald, and afterwards editor and proprietor of the Beloit daily Outlook; later on, removing to Nebraska, he started a paper in Falls City, where he remained a year and a half, when he returned to California and purchased the Ventura Free Press; the editing and publishing of which has occupied his time and attention for the past three years. Comrade Bowers is a member of Cushing Post, No. 44 [Grand Army of the Republic], at his place of residence, San Buenaventura, Cal."
(Ward, Wm. [ed.], Records of Members of the Grand Army of the Republic: With a Complete Account of the Twentieth National Encampment. H. S. Crocker & Co., San Francisco, 1886. pp 330-331)
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