Pinckney Downie Bowles Pinckney Downie Bowles ( July 17 , 1835 – July 25 , 1910 ) was a lawyer , county prosecutor , probate judge , and a Confederate military officer during the American Civil War . Early years . Pinckney D . Bowles was born in Edgefield County , South Carolina , to a wealthy plantation family . He was educated at the South Carolina Military Academy , now known as The Citadel , in Charleston , South Carolina and at the University of Virginia . He studied law under Samuel McGowan at Abbeville , South Carolina . In 1859 , Bowles moved to Alabama to practice law in Conecuh County . Military service . In 1860 , Bowles entered state militia service as the colonel of the 28th Alabama Militia . He also served as first lieutenant in the local Conecuh Guards , and was later promoted to its captain after the Civil War began . He and his men were sent to Florida , and then on to Virginia , there to join what became the Army of Northern Virginia . On May 2 , 1861 , while stationed in Yorktown , Virginia , Bowles was re - elected as a captain in the 4th Alabama Infantry Regiment . He fought in the Seven Days Battles in June and July 1862 around Richmond , Virginia , a series of battles that resulted in a significant setback for Union troops attempting to capture the capital of the Confederacy . In August 1862 , shortly before the Second Battle of Bull Run , or the Battle of Second Manassas , Bowles was promoted to major . He was promoted to lieutenant colonel shortly after the Maryland Campaign , and days later to colonel . He was married , during the Civil War , at Sparta , Alabama , on February 24 , 1863 , to Alice Irene , daughter of Judge N . F . and Anna C . Stearns . They had three children , Catherine , Mary Ella and Minnalula . Bowles led the 4th Alabama at Fredericksburg , Chancellorsville , much of the Gettysburg Campaign , and during the Overland Campaign of 1864 . He commanded Law ' s Brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia between June 3 , 1864 and September 1864 while Law was recovering from wounds . In the last months of the war , he led a brigade of five regiments . Although some sources state he was finally commissioned as a brigadier general on April 2 , 1865 , in fact there is no record of any such promotion . While Bowles may have commanded a hastily organized brigade of two regiments ( or perhaps the five regiments mentioned in earlier sources ) and some reserves under Brigadier General James Walker during the Appomattox Campaign , and Allardice found no evidence that the reserve units were in Walker ' s division , this would not have required his promotion . Although Bowles often was engaged in heavy fighting and had his canteen shattered by a bullet at the Battle of First Bull Run and his cap shot from his hand at the Battle of Spotsylvania , he was never wounded during the war . Postbellum years . After the end of the war , Bowles returned home to practice law in Sparta , before moving to Evergreen , Alabama , when the county seat relocated there . For ten years between 1867 and 1877 , he served as the county prosecutor before devoting himself full - time to private practice . His business flourished , and Bowles became one of the leading lawyers in southern Alabama . He was active in the Episcopalian Church , the Democratic Party and the Freemasons . He also was a " general " in the United Confederate Veterans . He served as a probate judge from 1887 until 1898 . Bowles died in Tampa , Florida , and is buried in the Old Historical Cemetery in Evergreen , Alabama .