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1862.
Edward Carson Bowman.
Acting Assistant Paymaster United States Navy, September, 1862; died at New Orleans, La., October 17, 1864, of disease contracted in the service.
Edward Carson Bowman was born at Dadeville, Alabama, March 20, 1841.
His father, who was of Southern birth and a man of culture, died while Edward was in his infancy, in consequence of which event his mother removed with him, when he was little more than two years old, to Massachusetts, her native State.
In 1846, upon the second marriage of his mother, to Mr. Charles C. Bowman, Edward assumed the name of his step-father.
He remained for a time in Massachusetts, receiving instruction at home.
In his autobiography in the Class-Book he gives the following sketch of his early life:—
I was educated at home until about ten years old, when my father, having considerable interests in San Francisco, sent for us to join him there.
I sailed from New York in June, 1851, in the clipper ship Flying Cloud
1863.
Augustus Barker.
Second Lieutenant 5th New York Cavalry, October 3, 186; first Lieutenant May 3, 1862; Captain, October 24, 1862; died near Kelly's Ford, Va., September 18, 1863, of wounds received from guerillas, September 17.
Augustus Barker was born in Albany, New York, April 24, 1842.
He was the son of William Hazard and Jeannette (James) Barker.
His grandfather on the paternal side was Jacob Barker of New Orleans, Louisiana.
His mother, who died soon after his birth, was the daughter of the late William James of Albany.
He attended a variety of schools,—at Albany, Sing-Sing, and Geneva, in New York; at New Haven, Connecticut; and finally at Exeter, New Hampshire, where he was a pupil of the Academy.
In July, 1859, he entered the Freshman Class of Harvard University.
In College he was genial, frank, and popular.
His college life, however, closed with the second term of the Sophomore year, and he soon after entered the volunteer cavalry service of New Yo