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742 for its gallantry in attacking the enemy. Here Sergeant Bosang shared the perils of his company, which lost twenty-one men out of sixty-one engaged, and was promoted first sergeant for his meritorious conduct. In the following spring he became first lieutenant, and soon after this promotion was made captain of the company, the former commander rising to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He fought under Jackson in the campaigns in the valley of the Shenandoah, the Seven Days before Richmond, Second Manassas, Harper's Ferry and Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and after the death of his general shared the service of Johnson's division through the Gettysburg campaign and the battle of the Wilderness until he was captured in the disaster that befell the command at Spottsylvania Court House. He fell upon this field, wounded in the groin, and was taken to the hospital at Washington, then to the Old Capitol prison and from there to Fort Delaware, where he was one of three hundred who refused to take the oath as long as any of their comrades were still in the field. On this account he was compelled to endure the hardships of prison life until July 25, 1865, over fourteen months after his capture. Two brothers of Captain Bosang served in the same company with him: John A., who became a lieutenant and was killed at Spottsylvania; and Henry, who was first wounded at Second Manassas, afterward became major commanding a battalion, was wounded a second time during Averell's raid in southwest Virginia, and died from his wounds after the war, while in California. Captain Bosang has been a resident of Pulaski City since the return of peace. In 1893 his patriotic service and estimable qualities as a citizen were rewarded by election to the office of clerk of the county and circuit courts. By his marriage to Mary F. Cecil he has seven children: Jessie N., N. L., Viola M., Callie F., Ella N., Maggie L., James G.

Evan J. Bosher, of Richmond, an honored veteran of the Second Richmond howitzers, is a native of that city, born in September, 1845. In March, 1863, at the age of seventeen years, he enlisted as a private in the Second Richmond howitzers, and from that date until the close of the war shared gallantly in the conspicuous action of that command. In the list of battles in which he participated are the famous names of Chancellorsville, Winchester, Gettysburg, Mine Run, Spottsylvania, the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Berryville, Cedar Creek, the defense of Petersburg, Sailor's Creek and Appomattox. Joining in the surrender of the army of Northern Virginia, he received his parole and returned to Richmond, where he embarked in civil life at the age of twenty-one years. During the period that has elapsed since the dark day at Appomattox he has achieved prominent citizenship in his native city and is now prosperous and busy as a manufacturer. In 1868 he took a leading part in the reorganization of the Richmond Howitzers, and since then has served in all the ranks of the association, in 1880 being elected to the position of captain.

Robert S. Bosher, one of the most prominent business men of Richmond, Va., widely known in the South and throughout the whole country, was born at that city in 1843. He entered the service of the Confederate States in May, 1861, as a member of the Second company of Richmond howitzers, an organization of artillery that was famous in the army of Northern Virginia and did