The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-08-15

port TO zen. Gregg, MS ola regiment
by this time having been exchanged,
and now awaiting orders at Vicks-
burg, Miss. About this time DR..
Bowers was again captured by Gen.
Grant at jackson, Miss, and being
left in charge of the Confederate
wounded here, johnson in the mean
time pressing upon Grant, till the
Federal forces fell back, thus giving
opportunity which the Doctor and
others availed themselves of, and
escaped. This was the second time
Gen. Grant captured DR.. Bowers,
and the second time the Doctor
gave him the slip. Upon the cap
ture of the hospitals, DR.. Bowers
gave his name to the Federal officer
enrolling as DR.. Bowers. "Dr. Bow
ers, did you say" clasping his pock-
ct as if feeling for the Fort Donald
son list. ''No, sir" responded DIR.
B., 81 said James A. Bowers" The
idea was with the Doctor that Grant
kept the same officer and the old
record all the time. At the battle
of Chickamauga, Gen. Gregg's Bri-
gade being consolidated with other
commands, DR.. Bowers was then
promoted to the position of Divis-
ion Surgeon of Maj. Gen. W. H. T.
Walkers Division, which promotion
occurred IN Oct, 1868. When
Walker was killed on the 22nd of
the following July, DR.. Bowers
was appointed Gen. Inspector of
Hospitals by Gen. Joe. johnson,
which duty he performed with great
satisfaction to the commanding gen
erals. After this, Gen. Hood, hay
ing been appointed to the command
Of the army, he reappointed DR..
Bowers General Inspector of Hos
pitfalls, he being afterwards made
surgeon of Gen. Cheatham's corps,
in Sept, 1864, at Palmetto, Ga. And
when Hood made his campaign
from about Palmetto to Tenn, DIR.
Bowers came with him, enduring
many hardships with the soldiers
and performing much work for the
army at Columbia, Franklin and
near Nashville. When Hoods
army retreated from Tenn, DR..
Bowers went with it to BeGtonville,
North Carolina. And after the gen
eral army had surrendered there the
Doctor received his parole at Ra
leigh, n. c., from which place he
returned to his home, Giles Co.,
Tenn, and resumed a large practice
among his friends and old patrons.
OF DR.. Bowers eminent services
during the four years of war be-
tween the States l, have only been
able to give brief sketch elabora-
ting nothing. Only the outlines of
what might be a detailed byograph-
ical sketch are here given, but the
writer hopes and is assured of the
fact that the faithful and eminent
services of DR.. Bowers are known
to and treasured ia the hearts of
many of the noble and true of our
Southland. In comprising the in
cidents of q life with so small
space, the reader is saved from irk-
some, minute and dvapid redundancy,
and will therefore appreciate the re-
lation of fact which is the only
thing here attempted. But in clos
ing, L must recommend Capt. G.. b.
Reasons of Elkton, Tenn, to my es-
teemed friend, DIR. L. L. Drake, of
Fayetteville, Tenn, for both Incl
dents and accidents of the late war,
as the Capt. humorously says that |
he remembers what he had for |
breakfast during that unpleasant
ness.
HIS MARRIAGE.
Dr. Bowers lived to be what the |
people style the age of ~ bachelor.
With a vivacious spirit, and san
guine temperament, he always based |
hope upon some real or fattering
ground-for he was never /
pur blind in matters Of life. He /
the sudviter an naodo in a
very extraordinary degree, and with |
it pungent wit and keen retoFt, and /
neither nice discrimination nor keen
perception could ever discover in
his manner the slightest shade of
Sometimes his playful
ness would excite laughter upon Sc
Tious questions-and though not |
quaint he was humorous-and 1t
was one of those innocent but char
acteristic maneuvers which led him
to address the lady whom ne after /
wards married. AS humorously re- t
lated to me, his artful colrtship may |
be seen in his own style. He was
on his way to see a patient some \
distance in the country, stopping at
the first house from town, ostensi-
bly, to get book, addressed the
lady while the book was being |
handed him, when the matter was
mutually referred to an evening
three days in the future. The book |
was there dropped and never
called for again. The appointed /
evening came, and he was accepted |
and soon married to one among the |
christian women l have ever
known, Mrs. e. NJ. Harney. Two /
children were born unto them, a son
and daughter. The daughter, bril-
liant child, and the mother, Mrs. /
Bowers, are the surviving members
Of the family. Sometime after the /
Doctor was married to Mrs. Har-
ney, he voluntarily yielded up a gen.
eral practice for a special one, con
this until his death, which
occurred July 18th, 1878, at his res
idence at Elkton. In 1875 he
served in the Lower House OF Rep
from the counties of
Lincoln and Giles, and on returning
home found himself ever afterwards
an acute sufferer. He joined the
Episcopal Church, South,
in the year 1877, and contributed
literally of his means to the sup
port of the enterprises and institu
tions of that church. His social quail
tiles were unexcelled, and many
friend who has felt,,the personal mag
ism OF his presence will ever cher
ish the memory of DR.. James A.
Bowers. August l, 1878.
There is Better Way TO Enjoy Life
Than to quietly suffer the miseries result
ing from Dyspepsia. IfyOu are distress
ed with headache, nervousness, low
spirits, wakefulness, palpitatiOn of the
heart, cOstiveness, liver complaint, pain