Booth, the Garretts and an Invitation to Tea

[Rick Smith]

(10-15-2014 04:50 PM)BettyO Wrote:  Linda -

Walter "Wat" Bowie, of Mosby's 43rd Battalion was killed during the war so no, this would not be the Mr. Bowie who ran a hotel in Port Royal....

You are right, Betty. On October 6,1864, while heading west from their failed attempt to kidnap the governor of Maryland at Annapolis, Wat Bowie and his men stopped at Sandy Spring and took supplies they needed from a store. They were pursued by a posse of angry Quakers {Sandy Spring was a Quaker community} and during the running fight, Wat took a shotgun charge to the upper body, neck and face and died not long afterwards on October 7. His death marked a great loss to The Cause.