I looked this up on Ancestry and found A LOT of George Bowles in the Civil War. Do you have a middle initial? Randi Bowles Meentzen ... searching for Bowles in Halseatd and Colchester, Essex England http://360.yahoo.com/my_profile-3aZNZP48fqM3elMBsqiyi2PxqPXTUe2OLf7ABjw-?... Tom LaPorte <tlaporte(a)mts.net&gt; wrote: I always forget to ask this question but the recent Civil War subject gave me the push I needed. Would anyone know of a George Bowles, Civil War veteran who later was a Sheriff in Maryland? The following is from a family history written about 1900 for a Bowles family in southern Ontario, Canada: "There was in Aunt Margaret's family also a son called, as might be expected, George. George went to the States at the time of the Civil War, lured there partly by adventure and partly by the large sums of money some U.S. parents were paying to get substitutes for their drafted sons. He came back on a brief visit when the war was over. He had become dark and swarthy. There were many black specks on his forehead which we youngsters took to be gunpowder gotten in the storm of battle. After he had returned to the States he kept writing my father. He had been made sheriff or something or other in the State of Maryland. One letter came saying he was propped up in bed quite ill. Another soon followed from his wife saying he had died of "consumption". Whether he left any descendants I do not know." Any ideas? Tom ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BOWLES-request(a)rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Randi Bowles-Meentzen