Alexander Hamilton Bowman
Alexander Hamilton Bowman was an engineer, military educator, and career officer in the United States Army. Bowman supervised the erection of Charleston Harbor defenses, including Fort Sumter, and served as Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York during the American Civil War.
Alexander H. Bowman was born on May 15, 1803, at Bowmans Hill in WilkesBarre, Pennsylvania, the sixth child of farmer Samuel Bowman. One of seven brothers who participated in the American Revolutionary War as soldiers in the Continental Army, the elder Bowman and a brother fought at Lexington as two of the villages 48 minutemen and as ensign of the 3rd Massachusetts Regiment of the Continental Line guarded the spy Major John Andr awaiting his execution in 1780, walking him to the gallows. Samuel Bowman was later promoted to Lieutenant of the 1st Regiment of the Massachusetts Line. One of his brothers was killed at Monmouth, but after 1786 Captain Samuel and several of his siblings moved to the Wyoming Valley of northeast Pennsylvania.
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