William a BowersWilliam A. Bowers, Jr. was born August 5, 1947, in St. Augustine, Florida to William Alfred Bowers Sr. and Lora Elizabeth Tuten. When he was young, his family returned to Baxley, Appling County, Georgia, where he lived, was raised and educated. He isa 1965 graduate of Appling County High School, an Eagle Scout and is retired from the Georgia Department of Transportation as an Area Engineer in South Georgia. Worked as a Consultant Engineer with EMC Engineering for ten years after retiring from the DOT. He is married to Anna Deloris Willis of Toombs County. He is a member of the First Church in Baxley, Georgia. William has given speeches and performed living histories at State and National Parks, Historical Societies and other organizations for several years in Georgia, Florida and South Carolina. He resides still in Appling County and has served as a Boy Scout leader for over 30 years, a charter member and officer in the Appling Grays Camp #918 Sons of Confederate Veterans, the Appling County Board of Education, the First Church Administrative Board and the Appling County Heritage Center Board of Directors. He has published three Confederate regimental histories with the History of the 47th Georgia Volunteer Infantry being published in May 2013 and the History of the 27th Georgia Volunteer Infantry being published in February 2014. In 2016 he published the History of the 54th Georgia Volunteer Infantry. This completed the trilogy of Confederate Regimental Histories which encompasses the four companies of Confederate Infantry which originated in Appling County, Georgia. In 2017 he published the Bowers Genealogy, the Descendants of Benjamin Bowers, Sr., of Pitt County, North Carolina. And his first novel Two Rebels from the Altamaha. Read More Read Less