The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-06-29
Arrest OF C. c. Bowen.-A Mighty Man fall.
en.-views OF Congress Vanished.

en.-views Of Congress Vanished.
We mentioned briefly in our issue Of yesterday,
that the above named individual had been arrested
by the military authorities. The following commu-
nication, published in the Savannah Advertiser, OF
the 2Oth instant, will throw some light on the an
tecedents and character OF BOWEN:
Mr.. EDITOR Noticing in your paper few days
since paragraph clipped from the Charleston
Mercury, in regard to speech made to the me-
groos in Summervile, s. O., in which @. @. Bowen
Radical ticket they would be sent to the Peniten.
tiary, was more forcibly than ever reminded OF
the fact that the antecedents Of oil the white Ra-
dicals in the South most singularly coincide with
each other.
I first made the acquaintance OF this C. G..
Bowen at the Marshall House in this city in 1862.
We were then organizing q company under the
act Of the Confederate Congress, in regard to
Partisan Rangers.
Bowen enlisted with us, and from associating
same company, learned that he was o Rhode
Island man by birth, but had Of late been settled
in Southwestern Georgia, from which place he
peregrinated through the country as profession
al faro dealer and gambler in general, and also
that he had married one Of the most notorious
prostitutes in Macon. So much for his HISTORY
previous to my meeting him.
Our company was finally mustered into service
in the 21st Georgia Battalion of Cavalry, under the
command of Major W. P White. After doing
we were ordered to report to Gen. Beauregard at
Charleston. While there, from the occurrences OF
vacancies, and the cool effrontery Of Bowen, he
managed to get elected Captain.
While holding that office, he made good thing
of it by taking in substitutes, and for large por
ton of the money he would give them leave OF alb
sence; they of course never returning to tho COM
mand the supposition being that they, had desert,
ed. BY these, and other little games, he managed
to become the owner Of nine horses, which were
ridden ID the command by men who were not able
to own horses themselves.
Frc m Charleston we were ordered to Waccamaw
Neck, opposite Georgetown, s. c., to picket the
Federal gunboats. While station there Bowen pro-
cured furlough to come to Savannah, and while
hero, by some fraudulent means, procured money
from the pay department. For this cause Major
W. P. White preferred charges against him 'Yor
conduct unbecomiDg an officer and gentleman.
On these charges he was court martlaled In
Georgetown and, on conviction, dismissed the SER
vice. Immediately on the promulgation Of the
order of Gen. Trapier, announcing his dismissal,
Bowen left for Waccamaw.
A few nights after his departure, as was scald-
ing dead shoat which had bitten me that day,
heard a report of gun at Major Whites quarters.
The whole camp was in an uproar, and I among
the rest went into Maj. WIS quarters, where found
him lying wounded, shot through the knee, from
which wound he died in about three weeks, in the
Georgetown hospital murdered in cold blood.
The party upon whom suspicion fell was arrest
ed. He proved to be sergeant in our company
and he acknowledged that he stood outside Of the
house and shot Major White through the weather.
| boarding. He showed us the hole where the bal
entered the house; he showed us where he had
thrown the murderous weapon after doing the das
| tardly deed; he showed us a blind made Of brush
alongside the road leading to the landing, which
C. C. Bowen had constructed, behind which to
hide and shoot Major White as he should pass
going to or returning from the landing, and he
confessed that C. c. Bowen had promised him tie
best 1rse he owned if he would murder Major W
| Bowen was Immediately arrested in Augusta, BY
telegraphic orders, and brought to Charleston and
confined in the Jail. Shortly after this we were
called to Virginia, where until the surrender, more
stirring scenes claimed my attention, and the mar
had almost escaped my memory until saw his
name in your paper as Radical.
Comment on my humble part is unnecessary
and having extended this much longor than ex
pected, will close by only saying that there arr
many individuals in Savannah who can vouch fo
all say. Yours truly.
| VENTILATOR