| Name: COWEN,
JAMES PRESTON (listed on muster roll as James P. Cowen and James B.
Cowen) |
| Rank: Corporal |
| Enlisted: 3
July 1861 at Westville, Dale County, age 20 |
| Service History: Absent
sick: Winchester, Va 1862/05/25. Present: Cross Keys, 1862/06; Cold
Harbor, 1862/06/27; Malvern Hill 1862/07/02 Cedar Mtn, 1862/08/09; Hazel
River; 1862/08/25; Manassas Junction, 1862/08/27; Manassas Plains,
1862/08/28-30; Suffolk, Va 1863/05/03; Gettysburg, Pa 1863/07/02-03;
Battle Mount, Va 1863/07/24; Chickamauga, Ga 1863/09/19-20; Raccoon Mt ,
Tenn 1863/10/27; Lookout Valley, Tenn 1863/10/28; Camel Station,
1863/11/16; Knoxville, Tenn 1863/11/20; Knoxville 2,Tenn 1863/11/29.
Wounded: Chantilly,1862/09/01;Wilderness,Va1864/05/06 Absent wounded:
Harpers Ferry, 1862/09/13; Sharpsburg, 1862/09/17;
ShepardTown,1862/09/18; Spotsylvania, Va 1864/05/08 & 12; Cold
Harbor, Va 1864/06/03; Chester Station, 1864/06/17. Absent Furlough:
Fredericksburg, Va 1862/12/13. Absent Detail: Dandridge, Tenn
1864/01/16. Captured: Deep Bottom,1864/08/14. Paroled at
surrender. |
| Date of Birth: 5
September 1839 |
Place of Birth: Darlington
District, South Carolina |
| Date of Death: 1
September 1909 |
Place of Death: Coffee
County, Alabama |
| Buried: Danleys
Crossroads Cemetery, Coffee County, Alabama |
| Father: James
Cowen (b abt 1815 in Massachusetts by 1850 Census; James P. Cowen gives
his father's birthplace as Florida in 1880 and Connecticut in 1900) |
| Mother: Elizabeth
// (b abt 1815 in South Carolina) |
| Spouse(s): Julia
Ann Dismukes (b 18 September 1836 in Georgia, d 11 November 1920 in
Covington County, Alabama), daughter of William "Billy"
Dismukes and Susan Ann Daniel; she married 1st William
L. Harris |
| Children: Lena
Mae (King), Frederick Daniel, James Preston Jr., Robert, Jefferson Claud |
| Occupation: Farmer |
| Residence(s): Barbour
County, Alabama; Clintonville and Elba, Coffee County, Alabama |
| Other: |
| Photographs: |
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| Submitter:
Georgia V. Fleming |
E-mail: hyacinth@ala.net |
