Lt. Colonel Douglass Fowler
And in today’s edition of the Hartford Courant, celebrating 250 years in print, you’ll find this profile of the 17th Connecticut’s second Lieutenant Colonel, Douglass Fowler.
Not only that, but the life and military career of Lt. Colonel Fowler (a Guilford native) will highlighted during Guilford, CT’s “Guilford & The Civil War” event being held on May 31st as part of that town’s 375th Anniversary celebration.
I suppose we’ll never know (unless there is correspondence somewhere from him) that Fowler may have been something of a lost soul after the death of two infant children and wife (at a very young age) in the years before the war started.
Although his body was never recovered from the field at Gettysburg, his death is commemorated on the headstone marking his wife Melissa Nash Fowler at Pine Island Cemetery in Norwalk, CT.