MONTGOMERY COUNTY TENNESSEE

WAR RECORDS


JOSHUA BROWN
CIVIL WAR SOLDIER


Joshua Brown the son of Evalina Susan Bailey Brown and Joshua Brown,Sr. died 02-21-1924 at his Miami winter home. He was native of Clarksville and on 02-25-1924 buried in the Riverview Cemetery along side of his parents. Joshua faught in the civil war and joined the Confederacy after the recapture of Clarksville. He served along side of Sam Davis- the boy hero of Tennessee-. Joshua was taken POW twice- at Pulaski Tn and later held at Rock Island Illinois. Brown and Davis served with Coleman's Scouts a Confederacy unit that gathered intelligence on federals movement and were caught in the act of transporting documents back to Cnfederacy headquarters. Davis was hung for refusing to give up his source of intelligence documents. Joshua Brown's obit appeared in the 2-25-1924 Leaf -Chronicle paper.
 
Joshua Brown received THE SOUTHERN CROSS OF Honor from The United Daughters of the Confederacy,on June 1901 awarded by the New York chapter. Talley Bailey  critt61626@aol.com  received verification  from the UDC in Richmond Va.
 
 
Submitted byTalley Bailey  critt61626@aol.com


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