Civil War Union Army Officer. A New Jersey Militia officer at the outbreak of the Civil War, he was made a Colonel, and placed in command of Camp Fair Oaks training camp in Flemington, New Jersey, and was in charge of overseeing the training of the men there before they were sent off to the Union Army. He was then commissioned as Colonel and commander of the 15th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry in August 1862, and commanded them during the December 1862 Fredericksburg Campaign. Aged and infirm, he was clear after months in the field that his health could not sustain active campaigning, and he resigned his commission on March 6, 1863 (he was replaced by tought Regular Army officer Colonel William H. Penrose). His regiment would go on to be an integral part of the "First New Jersey Brigade", and would sustain terrible casualties at the May 1864 Battle of Spotsylvania. Colonel Fowler himself would succumb to his ill health just months before the end of the war. He was the son of Jacksonian Congressman Samuel Fowler, and the father of Democratic Congressman Samuel Fowler.
Civil War Union Army Officer. A New Jersey Militia officer at the outbreak of the Civil War, he was made a Colonel, and placed in command of Camp Fair Oaks training camp in Flemington, New Jersey, and was in charge of overseeing the training of the men there before they were sent off to the Union Army. He was then commissioned as Colonel and commander of the 15th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry in August 1862, and commanded them during the December 1862 Fredericksburg Campaign. Aged and infirm, he was clear after months in the field that his health could not sustain active campaigning, and he resigned his commission on March 6, 1863 (he was replaced by tought Regular Army officer Colonel William H. Penrose). His regiment would go on to be an integral part of the "First New Jersey Brigade", and would sustain terrible casualties at the May 1864 Battle of Spotsylvania. Colonel Fowler himself would succumb to his ill health just months before the end of the war. He was the son of Jacksonian Congressman Samuel Fowler, and the father of Democratic Congressman Samuel Fowler.
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