Soldier:  Isaac Bowyer

Regiment:  88^th. OVI                             

Company:  C

Age:  28                                               

Date Entering Service:  1/21/1865

Period of Service:  5 months 12 days

Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):

Mustered out with Company 7/3/1865

Battles in which he fought:

This Regiment was originally organized of a Battalion of four Companies organized at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio from September 24, to October 27, 1862, to serve three years and designated “First Battalion Governors Guards.”

Six new Companies were organized at Camp Chase from July 24 to August 3, 1863 to serve three years and consolidated with this Battalion and designated the 88th Ohio Volunteers. It was mustered out of service July 3, 1865.

This Regiment was principally engaged in guarding Rebel prisoners at Camp Chase. It was also engaged in the pursuit of Morgan’s Raiders and the suppression of the Holmes County Rebellion July 1863.

Other interesting information discovered:

Isaac Bowyer was born in Morrow County, Ohio on 4/3/1835. He married Margaret Shaw and had three children. Isaac lived and farmed in the Cardington, Ohio area until sometime after 1880 when he moved to Blue Creek, Paulding County, Ohio where he continued farming. He collected an invalid’s pension on 9.4/1889.

Date of Death:  7/3/1911                           Place of burial:  Blue Creek Cemetery, Haviland, Ohio

Adopted By:  Charlie and Christine Long                         Researcher: Velda L Montgomery