Alexander Hamilton Bowman

Birth Date

1803-03-30

Death Date

1865-11-11

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

West Point, New York, soldier and engineer. Pennsylvania native. Son of Samuel Bowman. Married to Mary Louise Bowman. Father of Mary Ellen Bowman, Eulalie Bowman, Louisa Bowman, Eliza Chase Bowman, Alexander Bowman. Graduate of the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, in 1825. Served as private, second lieutenant, first lieutenant, captain, major, and colonel in the United States Corps of Engineers from 1825 to 1865. Professor of geography, history, and ethics at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point in 1825. Captain of West Point engineers in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1850. Employed Margaret Welch in Charleston in 1850. Instructor of practical military engineering at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point from 1851 to 1852. Major of engineers in Luzerne, Pennsylvania, from 1857 to 1860. Employed Jacob Maun, Jane McFarlane, Margaret Riley in Luzerne in 1860. Superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy and colonel of engineers in West Point from March 1, 1861, to July 8, 1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, South Carolina, Charleston County, St. Andrews, p. 371B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Pennsylvanie, Luzerne County, Wilkes Barre, p. 1079-1080. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 398. Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1600-1889 Vol. 1, p. 339.

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