Eli's service record and pension file at the National Archives shows that he was mustered in at Coldwater, Michigan. The captain in the Ninth Cavalry was his brother, Jonas Hartzell McGowan, commissioned on 4 Dec 1862, so it is no coincidence that Eli enlisted to serve in the company with his brother. Soon after Jonas was discharged due to an injury, Eli resigned from the Ninth Cavalry so that he could reenlist to serve as Regimental Quartermaster for another brother, Col. John E. McGowan, in the First U. S. Colored Heavy Artillery.
Contributor: Diane Tichenor (46915824)
Eli's service record and pension file at the National Archives shows that he was mustered in at Coldwater, Michigan. The captain in the Ninth Cavalry was his brother, Jonas Hartzell McGowan, commissioned on 4 Dec 1862, so it is no coincidence that Eli enlisted to serve in the company with his brother. Soon after Jonas was discharged due to an injury, Eli resigned from the Ninth Cavalry so that he could reenlist to serve as Regimental Quartermaster for another brother, Col. John E. McGowan, in the First U. S. Colored Heavy Artillery.
Contributor: Diane Tichenor (46915824)
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