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Jasper N. Stowe, 23rd North Carolina, Co. H

A separate service's message board describes Jasper Newton Stowe as having been a member of Company H, 23rd North Carolina. It states that he was wounded and captured at Gettysburg on 1 July 1863, and transferred to DeCamp General Hospital on David's Island, New York prior to 22 July. He died on David's Island on 3 August 1863 and was buried on Hart Island. His body was reinterred to Cypress Hills National Cemetery in 1941. The Soldiers and Sailors database offers an alternative spelling of his name as J. M. Stone, likely an error in transcribing. Stowe (Stone) appears on a list of Confederate wounded in hospital at Gettysburg after the battle. He is described as having been wounded in the thigh and neck, and he was transferred to the General Hospital on 18 July. Another member of this company mortally wounded at Gettysburg was Corporal Leonidas Torrence. Torrence's diary is at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. W. J. O'Daniel, yet another company soldier, wrote to Torrence's mother after the battle, stating that three were killed on the field, three others died shortly after the fight, four were seriously wounded (among them presumably Stowe), and five others received lesser wounds, total 15. O'Daniel writes that Torrence was wounded in the thigh and in the head by a ball that entered between his eye and ear. S. L. McClure had three balls through his body and two in his left arm, which was cut off (amputated?) below the elbow. H. M. Wallace had his right wrist broken and his left arm taken off. O'Daniel himself was one of the lesser wounded with buckshot in the left cheek. Incidentally, the 88th Pennsylvania was the only regiment in Baxter's brigade that was partially armed with .69 smoothbore weapons (buckshot and ball). In addition, Captain Henry Gray Turner was wounded and captured, and Lieutenant James M. Kendrick was captured. All of these men became casualties in the disastrous charge made by Iverson's brigade against Baxter's Federal brigade of the First Corps in the early afternoon of 1 July. Company H along with the rest of the 23rd North Carolina was wiped out within a few short minutes.

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