Corporal, G Co. 51st. PA Infantry.
A letter his father Edward received and published about James death.
The Democratic Watchman, Bellefonte, PA, Fri., Oct. 24, 1862, p. 3.
Published by Request.
Camp Pleasant Valley, Md., Oct. 9, 1862.
Mr. E. Dowling Sr.
Dear Sir. Yours of Oct. 1st only reached me last evening. I regret to say that your information is only too correct. Your son, Corporal James Dowling, was mortally wounded in the charge upon Antietam Bridge and died during the succeeding night. I saw him once after he fell, and was glad to find that he had received every surgical aid and attention which the nature of the wound admitted, and that he did not seem to be suffering very intensely. He was as brave and gallant a soldier as ever fell, With his face to the field and his feet to the foe. Accept my heartfelt sympathies in this trying bereavement. It must be a satisfaction to you to know that he lived long enough to find that the field was won, and that his death was not in vain. The 51st was ordered up to carry the Bridge by storm, after a whole Brigade had failed in the attempt, and Gen. McClellan stated to Generals Burnside and Sturgis, the latter of whom published the fact in a General Order, that the vigor and success of the movement saved the day. Such was the crisis in which your gallant son offered up his young life a willing sacrifice upon the altar of his country. One hundred and twenty of our regiment, more than one out of every four, fell along with him in less than that many seconds, but the survivors stood with thinned ranks on the other side of the Bridge, and the day was saved. If there are any apologists of this most unholy and unnecessary rebellion, in your neighborhood, I wish you would ask them what right a Georgia rebel had to shoot down your son for attempting to cross over a free and public bridge in Maryland or anywhere else? Corporal Dowling had pay due him from the 1st of July to the day of his death, Sept. 17, inclusive. Judge Hale can give you reliable information in regard to your right to Bounty and Pension, questions which I have never had an opportunity of examining carefully. It will give me pleasure to aid you in every way in my power in obtaining what you may be entitled to from the Government. In haste I remain.
Yours Respy &c.
Wm. H. Blair.
Contributor: I Love Genealogy (47705989)
A letter his father Edward received and published about James death.
The Democratic Watchman, Bellefonte, PA, Fri., Oct. 24, 1862, p. 3.
Published by Request.
Camp Pleasant Valley, Md., Oct. 9, 1862.
Mr. E. Dowling Sr.
Dear Sir. Yours of Oct. 1st only reached me last evening. I regret to say that your information is only too correct. Your son, Corporal James Dowling, was mortally wounded in the charge upon Antietam Bridge and died during the succeeding night. I saw him once after he fell, and was glad to find that he had received every surgical aid and attention which the nature of the wound admitted, and that he did not seem to be suffering very intensely. He was as brave and gallant a soldier as ever fell, With his face to the field and his feet to the foe. Accept my heartfelt sympathies in this trying bereavement. It must be a satisfaction to you to know that he lived long enough to find that the field was won, and that his death was not in vain. The 51st was ordered up to carry the Bridge by storm, after a whole Brigade had failed in the attempt, and Gen. McClellan stated to Generals Burnside and Sturgis, the latter of whom published the fact in a General Order, that the vigor and success of the movement saved the day. Such was the crisis in which your gallant son offered up his young life a willing sacrifice upon the altar of his country. One hundred and twenty of our regiment, more than one out of every four, fell along with him in less than that many seconds, but the survivors stood with thinned ranks on the other side of the Bridge, and the day was saved. If there are any apologists of this most unholy and unnecessary rebellion, in your neighborhood, I wish you would ask them what right a Georgia rebel had to shoot down your son for attempting to cross over a free and public bridge in Maryland or anywhere else? Corporal Dowling had pay due him from the 1st of July to the day of his death, Sept. 17, inclusive. Judge Hale can give you reliable information in regard to your right to Bounty and Pension, questions which I have never had an opportunity of examining carefully. It will give me pleasure to aid you in every way in my power in obtaining what you may be entitled to from the Government. In haste I remain.
Yours Respy &c.
Wm. H. Blair.
Contributor: I Love Genealogy (47705989)
Corporal, G Co. 51st. PA Infantry.
A letter his father Edward received and published about James death.
The Democratic Watchman, Bellefonte, PA, Fri., Oct. 24, 1862, p. 3.
Published by Request.
Camp Pleasant Valley, Md., Oct. 9, 1862.
Mr. E. Dowling Sr.
Dear Sir. Yours of Oct. 1st only reached me last evening. I regret to say that your information is only too correct. Your son, Corporal James Dowling, was mortally wounded in the charge upon Antietam Bridge and died during the succeeding night. I saw him once after he fell, and was glad to find that he had received every surgical aid and attention which the nature of the wound admitted, and that he did not seem to be suffering very intensely. He was as brave and gallant a soldier as ever fell, With his face to the field and his feet to the foe. Accept my heartfelt sympathies in this trying bereavement. It must be a satisfaction to you to know that he lived long enough to find that the field was won, and that his death was not in vain. The 51st was ordered up to carry the Bridge by storm, after a whole Brigade had failed in the attempt, and Gen. McClellan stated to Generals Burnside and Sturgis, the latter of whom published the fact in a General Order, that the vigor and success of the movement saved the day. Such was the crisis in which your gallant son offered up his young life a willing sacrifice upon the altar of his country. One hundred and twenty of our regiment, more than one out of every four, fell along with him in less than that many seconds, but the survivors stood with thinned ranks on the other side of the Bridge, and the day was saved. If there are any apologists of this most unholy and unnecessary rebellion, in your neighborhood, I wish you would ask them what right a Georgia rebel had to shoot down your son for attempting to cross over a free and public bridge in Maryland or anywhere else? Corporal Dowling had pay due him from the 1st of July to the day of his death, Sept. 17, inclusive. Judge Hale can give you reliable information in regard to your right to Bounty and Pension, questions which I have never had an opportunity of examining carefully. It will give me pleasure to aid you in every way in my power in obtaining what you may be entitled to from the Government. In haste I remain.
Yours Respy &c.
Wm. H. Blair.
Contributor: I Love Genealogy (47705989)
A letter his father Edward received and published about James death.
The Democratic Watchman, Bellefonte, PA, Fri., Oct. 24, 1862, p. 3.
Published by Request.
Camp Pleasant Valley, Md., Oct. 9, 1862.
Mr. E. Dowling Sr.
Dear Sir. Yours of Oct. 1st only reached me last evening. I regret to say that your information is only too correct. Your son, Corporal James Dowling, was mortally wounded in the charge upon Antietam Bridge and died during the succeeding night. I saw him once after he fell, and was glad to find that he had received every surgical aid and attention which the nature of the wound admitted, and that he did not seem to be suffering very intensely. He was as brave and gallant a soldier as ever fell, With his face to the field and his feet to the foe. Accept my heartfelt sympathies in this trying bereavement. It must be a satisfaction to you to know that he lived long enough to find that the field was won, and that his death was not in vain. The 51st was ordered up to carry the Bridge by storm, after a whole Brigade had failed in the attempt, and Gen. McClellan stated to Generals Burnside and Sturgis, the latter of whom published the fact in a General Order, that the vigor and success of the movement saved the day. Such was the crisis in which your gallant son offered up his young life a willing sacrifice upon the altar of his country. One hundred and twenty of our regiment, more than one out of every four, fell along with him in less than that many seconds, but the survivors stood with thinned ranks on the other side of the Bridge, and the day was saved. If there are any apologists of this most unholy and unnecessary rebellion, in your neighborhood, I wish you would ask them what right a Georgia rebel had to shoot down your son for attempting to cross over a free and public bridge in Maryland or anywhere else? Corporal Dowling had pay due him from the 1st of July to the day of his death, Sept. 17, inclusive. Judge Hale can give you reliable information in regard to your right to Bounty and Pension, questions which I have never had an opportunity of examining carefully. It will give me pleasure to aid you in every way in my power in obtaining what you may be entitled to from the Government. In haste I remain.
Yours Respy &c.
Wm. H. Blair.
Contributor: I Love Genealogy (47705989)
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