Civil War: Company B, 5th California Infantry
Alexander Gray Bowman enlisted as a private at Downieville, Sierra County, California, October 14, 1861, and was mustered into Company B, 5th California Infantry, October 18. He was posted to New Mexico Territory where he was promoted to corporal March 2, 1862. Corporal Bowman was mustered out at Franklin (El Paso), Texas, December 12, 1864 (Orton, p. 682). After the war he settled in Colorado where he appeared at Pueblo in the 1880 US Census. He filed for a Civil War veteran's pension in Colorado May 8, 1888, and received application No. 653,664 and certificate No. 1,010,859. Alexander Bowman later relocated to Farmington, New Mexico, where he appeared in the 1890 Veterans Schedule and as a druggist in the 1900 US Census. He re-filed for his veteran's pension at Farmington June 1, 1908. He was the brother of William R. Bowman, the father of his niece Mary Helen (Bowman) Estes. Alexander was never married (1910 US Census).
See Bowman, A. "Diary of Corporal A. Bowman, Pace-counter, Co. B, 5th Infantry, California Volunteers." University of Arizona Library Special Collections, Tucson; Bowman, Alexander Grayson. Diary, December 20, 1861-February 22, 1865. Typescript. University of Arizona Library Special Collections, Tucson, and Franklin, Louise Estes. "In Memory of Alexander G. Bowman [Co. B, 5th California Infantry]." University of Arizona Library Special Collections, Tucson.
Alexander Gray Bowman enlisted as a private at Downieville, Sierra County, California, October 14, 1861, and was mustered into Company B, 5th California Infantry, October 18. He was posted to New Mexico Territory where he was promoted to corporal March 2, 1862. Corporal Bowman was mustered out at Franklin (El Paso), Texas, December 12, 1864 (Orton, p. 682). After the war he settled in Colorado where he appeared at Pueblo in the 1880 US Census. He filed for a Civil War veteran's pension in Colorado May 8, 1888, and received application No. 653,664 and certificate No. 1,010,859. Alexander Bowman later relocated to Farmington, New Mexico, where he appeared in the 1890 Veterans Schedule and as a druggist in the 1900 US Census. He re-filed for his veteran's pension at Farmington June 1, 1908. He was the brother of William R. Bowman, the father of his niece Mary Helen (Bowman) Estes. Alexander was never married (1910 US Census).
See Bowman, A. "Diary of Corporal A. Bowman, Pace-counter, Co. B, 5th Infantry, California Volunteers." University of Arizona Library Special Collections, Tucson; Bowman, Alexander Grayson. Diary, December 20, 1861-February 22, 1865. Typescript. University of Arizona Library Special Collections, Tucson, and Franklin, Louise Estes. "In Memory of Alexander G. Bowman [Co. B, 5th California Infantry]." University of Arizona Library Special Collections, Tucson.
Civil War: Company B, 5th California Infantry
Alexander Gray Bowman enlisted as a private at Downieville, Sierra County, California, October 14, 1861, and was mustered into Company B, 5th California Infantry, October 18. He was posted to New Mexico Territory where he was promoted to corporal March 2, 1862. Corporal Bowman was mustered out at Franklin (El Paso), Texas, December 12, 1864 (Orton, p. 682). After the war he settled in Colorado where he appeared at Pueblo in the 1880 US Census. He filed for a Civil War veteran's pension in Colorado May 8, 1888, and received application No. 653,664 and certificate No. 1,010,859. Alexander Bowman later relocated to Farmington, New Mexico, where he appeared in the 1890 Veterans Schedule and as a druggist in the 1900 US Census. He re-filed for his veteran's pension at Farmington June 1, 1908. He was the brother of William R. Bowman, the father of his niece Mary Helen (Bowman) Estes. Alexander was never married (1910 US Census).
See Bowman, A. "Diary of Corporal A. Bowman, Pace-counter, Co. B, 5th Infantry, California Volunteers." University of Arizona Library Special Collections, Tucson; Bowman, Alexander Grayson. Diary, December 20, 1861-February 22, 1865. Typescript. University of Arizona Library Special Collections, Tucson, and Franklin, Louise Estes. "In Memory of Alexander G. Bowman [Co. B, 5th California Infantry]." University of Arizona Library Special Collections, Tucson.
Alexander Gray Bowman enlisted as a private at Downieville, Sierra County, California, October 14, 1861, and was mustered into Company B, 5th California Infantry, October 18. He was posted to New Mexico Territory where he was promoted to corporal March 2, 1862. Corporal Bowman was mustered out at Franklin (El Paso), Texas, December 12, 1864 (Orton, p. 682). After the war he settled in Colorado where he appeared at Pueblo in the 1880 US Census. He filed for a Civil War veteran's pension in Colorado May 8, 1888, and received application No. 653,664 and certificate No. 1,010,859. Alexander Bowman later relocated to Farmington, New Mexico, where he appeared in the 1890 Veterans Schedule and as a druggist in the 1900 US Census. He re-filed for his veteran's pension at Farmington June 1, 1908. He was the brother of William R. Bowman, the father of his niece Mary Helen (Bowman) Estes. Alexander was never married (1910 US Census).
See Bowman, A. "Diary of Corporal A. Bowman, Pace-counter, Co. B, 5th Infantry, California Volunteers." University of Arizona Library Special Collections, Tucson; Bowman, Alexander Grayson. Diary, December 20, 1861-February 22, 1865. Typescript. University of Arizona Library Special Collections, Tucson, and Franklin, Louise Estes. "In Memory of Alexander G. Bowman [Co. B, 5th California Infantry]." University of Arizona Library Special Collections, Tucson.
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