He was a Christian follower of Jesus & Pinewood area subsistence farmer; the family was poor, materially. We think (from Poppoo's...his grandson...notes) that his father was William Brown who may have been born in Northern Ireland (born there about 1800?). And William was married to Sarah or Anne Roberson. His grandfather is thought to have been a Scotsman named Mose Brown, probably born about 1775-1800. Moses married Mary (Fullwood?).
Granddaughter, Ruby Brown Patrick, told me, "They worked their place from can't see to can't see. The only eating utensils they had were spoons."
By the 1850 census, he was married first to Sara (who may have died shortly after that first childbirth). I am just guessing that Sara was buried in the family cemetery. He then married Emma. When Emma cooked for them on work days, she put the food into one bowl to take to the fields so each ate out of that one bowl.
John fought in the War Between the States, enlisting at Camp Hampton near Columbia on 2 January 1862 for what he thought would be a short period. The unit was William Nettles' (of Privateer) the "Santee Guerrillas", Company A, 14th Battalion of S. C. Calvary.
His unit was initially stationed at McPhersonville, S. C. south of Charleston in an effort to prevent an attack on the Charleston to Savannah railroad. He was in a battle near Garden's Corner; then went on 10 days leave on June 23rd, his enlistment expiring the end of June. But, he re-enlisted as a substitute for R. J. Dick (we think John may have been legally paid $200 by Mr. Dick...or his physician father...to substitute). What John thought would be a 12 month enlistment became an enlistment for the duration of the war. It appears that he thereafter was with ordnance and involved in such things as wagon master and moulder of shot and weapons repair for the duration of the war. In October, there would be another serious federal attack at the rail line (which was repulsed by a much smaller CSA contingent). Following this CSA victory, the men were moved from McPhersonville to Pocotaligo. In January of 1863, Private Brown's unit became Company H of the 5th S. C. Cavalry Regiment. A little later, Lieutenant Richard M. Skinner (of Paxville) would be promoted to Company Commander; and the unit would soon become known thereafter as "Skinner's Cavalry". Parts of his unit did temporary duty in Charleston (but not Pvt. Brown).
Several of our Brown family notes indicate that he was present when Wade Hampton's son, Frank Hampton, died June 9, 1863 at Brandy Station, Culpeper County, Virginia. In April 1864, the whole regiment was dispatched by train to Virginia to combine with the 4th & 6th regiments to form a brigade. Until the horses arrived later, they had to engage in skirmishes and the battles of Chester Station (May 10th), Drewry's Bluff, Atkinson's Farm, and Charles City Court House as dismounted cavalry. Following additional battles up through June, they were in the battle at Nance's Shop where Capt. Skinner was killed on 24 June 1864. Battles raged on through the fall until the armies went into winter quarters. In January 1865, having lost most of their horses, the 5th was ordered back to Columbia to replenish with horses. But they arrived just as General Sherman's federal army was advancing from Savannah to burn Columbia. They fought a relentless rear-guard action trying to slow Sherman's advance beyond Columbia through Camden and Cheraw on into N. C. Awful battles continued until a final fight at Averysboro March 20 & 21, 1865.
After Gen. Lee surrendered, Pvt. Brown's unit did what it was told to do; but, at some point, a leader told them to just go home...with guns and equipment (so, our ancestor never ended up listed on an official surrender list). When almost home at the end of the war, his horse or mule jumped a ditch and threw him so that he ruptured part of his abdominal wall. Thanks to the efforts of his great-great grandson, Robert L. Brown, his Confederate War carbine ("Tower" made in London) is on display at the Confederate Relic Room Military Museum (within the State Museum on Gervais Street) in Columbia, S. C. Most of the above comes from an excellent pamphlet written with much more detail and published privately in 1987 by Robert L. Brown.
He and second wife, Emma, had three boys and two girls. The 1870 census lists an 11 y/o white male as "Fraser" (and does not list 11 y/o Frances), and this is considered by me to be a census-taker mistake because I cannot find a properly matching Fraser Brown with JAB as his father anywhere on Family Search (as of July 2017).
John A. Brown was active in the affairs of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he helped to organize and build the edifice (Andrew's Chapel) at the Silver area and for years was the superintendent of it's Sunday school. He also donated the land, and he and son Dan saw to it that a church was built for "colored people" (Brown's Chapel) on his property.
Disabled from that ruptured abdomen noted above, he & Emma lived the rest of their lives with his son, Dan. Both John and Emma are buried in their church cemetery.
Granddaughter, Ruby Brown Patrick, told me, "They worked their place from can't see to can't see. The only eating utensils they had were spoons."
By the 1850 census, he was married first to Sara (who may have died shortly after that first childbirth). I am just guessing that Sara was buried in the family cemetery. He then married Emma. When Emma cooked for them on work days, she put the food into one bowl to take to the fields so each ate out of that one bowl.
John fought in the War Between the States, enlisting at Camp Hampton near Columbia on 2 January 1862 for what he thought would be a short period. The unit was William Nettles' (of Privateer) the "Santee Guerrillas", Company A, 14th Battalion of S. C. Calvary.
His unit was initially stationed at McPhersonville, S. C. south of Charleston in an effort to prevent an attack on the Charleston to Savannah railroad. He was in a battle near Garden's Corner; then went on 10 days leave on June 23rd, his enlistment expiring the end of June. But, he re-enlisted as a substitute for R. J. Dick (we think John may have been legally paid $200 by Mr. Dick...or his physician father...to substitute). What John thought would be a 12 month enlistment became an enlistment for the duration of the war. It appears that he thereafter was with ordnance and involved in such things as wagon master and moulder of shot and weapons repair for the duration of the war. In October, there would be another serious federal attack at the rail line (which was repulsed by a much smaller CSA contingent). Following this CSA victory, the men were moved from McPhersonville to Pocotaligo. In January of 1863, Private Brown's unit became Company H of the 5th S. C. Cavalry Regiment. A little later, Lieutenant Richard M. Skinner (of Paxville) would be promoted to Company Commander; and the unit would soon become known thereafter as "Skinner's Cavalry". Parts of his unit did temporary duty in Charleston (but not Pvt. Brown).
Several of our Brown family notes indicate that he was present when Wade Hampton's son, Frank Hampton, died June 9, 1863 at Brandy Station, Culpeper County, Virginia. In April 1864, the whole regiment was dispatched by train to Virginia to combine with the 4th & 6th regiments to form a brigade. Until the horses arrived later, they had to engage in skirmishes and the battles of Chester Station (May 10th), Drewry's Bluff, Atkinson's Farm, and Charles City Court House as dismounted cavalry. Following additional battles up through June, they were in the battle at Nance's Shop where Capt. Skinner was killed on 24 June 1864. Battles raged on through the fall until the armies went into winter quarters. In January 1865, having lost most of their horses, the 5th was ordered back to Columbia to replenish with horses. But they arrived just as General Sherman's federal army was advancing from Savannah to burn Columbia. They fought a relentless rear-guard action trying to slow Sherman's advance beyond Columbia through Camden and Cheraw on into N. C. Awful battles continued until a final fight at Averysboro March 20 & 21, 1865.
After Gen. Lee surrendered, Pvt. Brown's unit did what it was told to do; but, at some point, a leader told them to just go home...with guns and equipment (so, our ancestor never ended up listed on an official surrender list). When almost home at the end of the war, his horse or mule jumped a ditch and threw him so that he ruptured part of his abdominal wall. Thanks to the efforts of his great-great grandson, Robert L. Brown, his Confederate War carbine ("Tower" made in London) is on display at the Confederate Relic Room Military Museum (within the State Museum on Gervais Street) in Columbia, S. C. Most of the above comes from an excellent pamphlet written with much more detail and published privately in 1987 by Robert L. Brown.
He and second wife, Emma, had three boys and two girls. The 1870 census lists an 11 y/o white male as "Fraser" (and does not list 11 y/o Frances), and this is considered by me to be a census-taker mistake because I cannot find a properly matching Fraser Brown with JAB as his father anywhere on Family Search (as of July 2017).
John A. Brown was active in the affairs of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he helped to organize and build the edifice (Andrew's Chapel) at the Silver area and for years was the superintendent of it's Sunday school. He also donated the land, and he and son Dan saw to it that a church was built for "colored people" (Brown's Chapel) on his property.
Disabled from that ruptured abdomen noted above, he & Emma lived the rest of their lives with his son, Dan. Both John and Emma are buried in their church cemetery.
He was a Christian follower of Jesus & Pinewood area subsistence farmer; the family was poor, materially. We think (from Poppoo's...his grandson...notes) that his father was William Brown who may have been born in Northern Ireland (born there about 1800?). And William was married to Sarah or Anne Roberson. His grandfather is thought to have been a Scotsman named Mose Brown, probably born about 1775-1800. Moses married Mary (Fullwood?).
Granddaughter, Ruby Brown Patrick, told me, "They worked their place from can't see to can't see. The only eating utensils they had were spoons."
By the 1850 census, he was married first to Sara (who may have died shortly after that first childbirth). I am just guessing that Sara was buried in the family cemetery. He then married Emma. When Emma cooked for them on work days, she put the food into one bowl to take to the fields so each ate out of that one bowl.
John fought in the War Between the States, enlisting at Camp Hampton near Columbia on 2 January 1862 for what he thought would be a short period. The unit was William Nettles' (of Privateer) the "Santee Guerrillas", Company A, 14th Battalion of S. C. Calvary.
His unit was initially stationed at McPhersonville, S. C. south of Charleston in an effort to prevent an attack on the Charleston to Savannah railroad. He was in a battle near Garden's Corner; then went on 10 days leave on June 23rd, his enlistment expiring the end of June. But, he re-enlisted as a substitute for R. J. Dick (we think John may have been legally paid $200 by Mr. Dick...or his physician father...to substitute). What John thought would be a 12 month enlistment became an enlistment for the duration of the war. It appears that he thereafter was with ordnance and involved in such things as wagon master and moulder of shot and weapons repair for the duration of the war. In October, there would be another serious federal attack at the rail line (which was repulsed by a much smaller CSA contingent). Following this CSA victory, the men were moved from McPhersonville to Pocotaligo. In January of 1863, Private Brown's unit became Company H of the 5th S. C. Cavalry Regiment. A little later, Lieutenant Richard M. Skinner (of Paxville) would be promoted to Company Commander; and the unit would soon become known thereafter as "Skinner's Cavalry". Parts of his unit did temporary duty in Charleston (but not Pvt. Brown).
Several of our Brown family notes indicate that he was present when Wade Hampton's son, Frank Hampton, died June 9, 1863 at Brandy Station, Culpeper County, Virginia. In April 1864, the whole regiment was dispatched by train to Virginia to combine with the 4th & 6th regiments to form a brigade. Until the horses arrived later, they had to engage in skirmishes and the battles of Chester Station (May 10th), Drewry's Bluff, Atkinson's Farm, and Charles City Court House as dismounted cavalry. Following additional battles up through June, they were in the battle at Nance's Shop where Capt. Skinner was killed on 24 June 1864. Battles raged on through the fall until the armies went into winter quarters. In January 1865, having lost most of their horses, the 5th was ordered back to Columbia to replenish with horses. But they arrived just as General Sherman's federal army was advancing from Savannah to burn Columbia. They fought a relentless rear-guard action trying to slow Sherman's advance beyond Columbia through Camden and Cheraw on into N. C. Awful battles continued until a final fight at Averysboro March 20 & 21, 1865.
After Gen. Lee surrendered, Pvt. Brown's unit did what it was told to do; but, at some point, a leader told them to just go home...with guns and equipment (so, our ancestor never ended up listed on an official surrender list). When almost home at the end of the war, his horse or mule jumped a ditch and threw him so that he ruptured part of his abdominal wall. Thanks to the efforts of his great-great grandson, Robert L. Brown, his Confederate War carbine ("Tower" made in London) is on display at the Confederate Relic Room Military Museum (within the State Museum on Gervais Street) in Columbia, S. C. Most of the above comes from an excellent pamphlet written with much more detail and published privately in 1987 by Robert L. Brown.
He and second wife, Emma, had three boys and two girls. The 1870 census lists an 11 y/o white male as "Fraser" (and does not list 11 y/o Frances), and this is considered by me to be a census-taker mistake because I cannot find a properly matching Fraser Brown with JAB as his father anywhere on Family Search (as of July 2017).
John A. Brown was active in the affairs of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he helped to organize and build the edifice (Andrew's Chapel) at the Silver area and for years was the superintendent of it's Sunday school. He also donated the land, and he and son Dan saw to it that a church was built for "colored people" (Brown's Chapel) on his property.
Disabled from that ruptured abdomen noted above, he & Emma lived the rest of their lives with his son, Dan. Both John and Emma are buried in their church cemetery.
Granddaughter, Ruby Brown Patrick, told me, "They worked their place from can't see to can't see. The only eating utensils they had were spoons."
By the 1850 census, he was married first to Sara (who may have died shortly after that first childbirth). I am just guessing that Sara was buried in the family cemetery. He then married Emma. When Emma cooked for them on work days, she put the food into one bowl to take to the fields so each ate out of that one bowl.
John fought in the War Between the States, enlisting at Camp Hampton near Columbia on 2 January 1862 for what he thought would be a short period. The unit was William Nettles' (of Privateer) the "Santee Guerrillas", Company A, 14th Battalion of S. C. Calvary.
His unit was initially stationed at McPhersonville, S. C. south of Charleston in an effort to prevent an attack on the Charleston to Savannah railroad. He was in a battle near Garden's Corner; then went on 10 days leave on June 23rd, his enlistment expiring the end of June. But, he re-enlisted as a substitute for R. J. Dick (we think John may have been legally paid $200 by Mr. Dick...or his physician father...to substitute). What John thought would be a 12 month enlistment became an enlistment for the duration of the war. It appears that he thereafter was with ordnance and involved in such things as wagon master and moulder of shot and weapons repair for the duration of the war. In October, there would be another serious federal attack at the rail line (which was repulsed by a much smaller CSA contingent). Following this CSA victory, the men were moved from McPhersonville to Pocotaligo. In January of 1863, Private Brown's unit became Company H of the 5th S. C. Cavalry Regiment. A little later, Lieutenant Richard M. Skinner (of Paxville) would be promoted to Company Commander; and the unit would soon become known thereafter as "Skinner's Cavalry". Parts of his unit did temporary duty in Charleston (but not Pvt. Brown).
Several of our Brown family notes indicate that he was present when Wade Hampton's son, Frank Hampton, died June 9, 1863 at Brandy Station, Culpeper County, Virginia. In April 1864, the whole regiment was dispatched by train to Virginia to combine with the 4th & 6th regiments to form a brigade. Until the horses arrived later, they had to engage in skirmishes and the battles of Chester Station (May 10th), Drewry's Bluff, Atkinson's Farm, and Charles City Court House as dismounted cavalry. Following additional battles up through June, they were in the battle at Nance's Shop where Capt. Skinner was killed on 24 June 1864. Battles raged on through the fall until the armies went into winter quarters. In January 1865, having lost most of their horses, the 5th was ordered back to Columbia to replenish with horses. But they arrived just as General Sherman's federal army was advancing from Savannah to burn Columbia. They fought a relentless rear-guard action trying to slow Sherman's advance beyond Columbia through Camden and Cheraw on into N. C. Awful battles continued until a final fight at Averysboro March 20 & 21, 1865.
After Gen. Lee surrendered, Pvt. Brown's unit did what it was told to do; but, at some point, a leader told them to just go home...with guns and equipment (so, our ancestor never ended up listed on an official surrender list). When almost home at the end of the war, his horse or mule jumped a ditch and threw him so that he ruptured part of his abdominal wall. Thanks to the efforts of his great-great grandson, Robert L. Brown, his Confederate War carbine ("Tower" made in London) is on display at the Confederate Relic Room Military Museum (within the State Museum on Gervais Street) in Columbia, S. C. Most of the above comes from an excellent pamphlet written with much more detail and published privately in 1987 by Robert L. Brown.
He and second wife, Emma, had three boys and two girls. The 1870 census lists an 11 y/o white male as "Fraser" (and does not list 11 y/o Frances), and this is considered by me to be a census-taker mistake because I cannot find a properly matching Fraser Brown with JAB as his father anywhere on Family Search (as of July 2017).
John A. Brown was active in the affairs of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he helped to organize and build the edifice (Andrew's Chapel) at the Silver area and for years was the superintendent of it's Sunday school. He also donated the land, and he and son Dan saw to it that a church was built for "colored people" (Brown's Chapel) on his property.
Disabled from that ruptured abdomen noted above, he & Emma lived the rest of their lives with his son, Dan. Both John and Emma are buried in their church cemetery.
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