ISAAC E. DOWLER

Battery "H" 1st West Virginia Light Artillery

Researched & Compiled by Linda Fluharty

1850 Marshall County Census
DOWLER (102)
Thomas...Farmer...30-M...VA
Jane...30-F...VA
John...8-M...VA
Mary M...6-F...VA
Isaac E...4-M...VA
George F...1-M...VA

1860 Marshall County Census
DOWLER (2186)
Thomas...39-wm...farmer...VA
Jane...41-wf...VA
John...18-wm...cooper...VA
Mary M...16-wf...VA
Isaac E...13-wm...VA
George T...11-wm...VA
Joanna...7-wf...VA
Obadiah...1-wm...VA
Margaret Oram...75-wf...Ireland

Service Record: At age 17 years and eleven months, he joined for duty & enrolled at Wheeling on Aug. 9, 1864. His father, Thomas Dowler, signed a consent for Isaac to join. He mustered in at Wheeling on Aug. 18, 1864. He was captured at New Creek on Nov. 28, 1864 and was a Prisoner of War. Admitted to hospital at Richmond with Chronic Diarrhea on Feb. 9, 1865; paroled at Aiken’s Landing, Va. Feb. 17, 1865, and arrived at Camp Chase, Ohio on Feb. 20, 1865. “Died at home in Marshall County, W.Va. Apr. 1865.” “Born in Marshall County.” He died of “Chronic Diarrhea or Starvation by Rebels” on Apr. 25, 1865, according to the Marshall County Death Register.

Isaac was the son of Thomas Dowler (s/o George Dowler & Mary Barto) and Jane (McHenry) Dowler, found in the 1850 & 1860 census records of Marshall County.


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