. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . participated in the Gettysburg campaign, and was withthe Sixth Corps in its memorable forced march to reachthe battle-field, July 2, 1863. After the battle of Gettysburg, Lieutenant Bowen wasdetailed as aide on the staff of Brigadier-General HenryL. Eustis, and occupied that position during the remainderof his service, participating in the mean while in the MineRun campaign, and battles of Rappahannock Station, theWilderness, Spottsylvania, North Anna River, and ColdI [arbor. The term of service of his regiment havingexp
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . participated in the Gettysburg campaign, and was withthe Sixth Corps in its memorable forced march to reachthe battle-field, July 2, 1863. After the battle of Gettysburg, Lieutenant Bowen wasdetailed as aide on the staff of Brigadier-General HenryL. Eustis, and occupied that position during the remainderof his service, participating in the mean while in the MineRun campaign, and battles of Rappahannock Station, theWilderness, Spottsylvania, North Anna River, and ColdI [arbor. The term of service of his regiment havingexpired, he was mustered out with it in June, 1864. Upon his discharge from the army, Lieutenant Bowenentered the insurance business, and is president of theFranklin Marine Fire Insurance Company of Providence,Rhode Island. He has served six years in the StateLegislature and fifteen years on the School Board. Hewas twice married ; two children survive from the former,and eijjht from the second marriage. 300 OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY (volunteer). BREVET BRIGADIER-GENERAL JAMES GRANTWILSON, Brevet Brigadier-General James Gram- Wilson,prominent among the young cavalry officers who per-formed good service under General Grant, is a son of thelate poet-publisher, William Wilson, of Poughkeepsie,N. V., a kinsman of James Wilson, of Pennsylvania, oneof the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Aftercompleting his studies he travelled in Europe with ex-President Fillmore, and later he was for a time associatedwith his father in business. Before the war he removed toIllinois and established in Chicago the first literary jour-nal in the Northwest. In 1862 he raised a battalion, ofwhich he was commissioned major, that formed a part ofthe fifteenth Illinois Cavalry, commanded by Col. War-ren Stewart, which saw much active service in the Missis-sippi Valley. By the death of Stewart, Major Wilson becamecommander of the regiment, taking part in main- en-gagements, and constantly
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