Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Capt. Uriah Thomas Brown-CSA


A history lesson on one of your more noteable ancestors. Uriah was Zanda Lynn's grandfather who fought on the confederate side in the civil war. He was never a slave owner. This article is a copy and paste, so forgive the formatting.

CAPT. URIAH THOMAS BROWN-CSA

Uriah was a Doctor in private life. With the coming of the
Civil War, he helped organize, Company "E", 28th Tennessee
Volunteer Infantry Regiment, at Flynn’s Lick, August 11, 1861.
It was composed of men from Jackson and Putnam Counties.
He was made Capt. and later, on re-organization he was made
Colonel, May 8, 1862.
He participated in the Battle of Fishing Creek, Ky., Jan. 19, 1862
and lost 12 men killed, wounded, or missing. At the Battle of
Shiloh April 6-7, 1862, estimated loss was 100 men. On July
20, 1862 he was listed as Colonel in Breckinridge’s Division
at Vicksburg. They moved to Baton Rouge, La. and fought there
Aug., 5, 1862. Then they were moved back to Tennessee, and
on November 27, 1862, he resigned his commission , because of ill
health. To take effect December 10, 1862.

Following story told to me by my grandmother, Zanda Georgian
Lynn (Mrs. David Campbell Lynn), Uriah was her Grandfather.
I have a Tin-Type of him that she gave me when I was a teenager.

All during the war, Uriah rode a little mare that he brought from home.
He determined to go home on leave to see his folks, even though
he knew the Yankees were in Control of the whole country side. He
was almost home, and approaching Ft. Blount, when he was intercepted
by a federal patrol. He turned North along the Cumberland River and
headed for what they called the low gap, with the Yanks in pursuit.
Without hesitation he spurred the little mare off the river bluff, landing
in the Cumberland river. He and the mare swam to safety. The Yanks
wouldn't risk the jump into the river. He made it safely home, and told
his parents this story. He had no trouble slipping back through the Federal
lines on his return to his regiment.

After the War.............
He again became a country Doctor, and made his rounds on horseBack.
On his way home one day, he stopped at a spring near Flynn’s Lick to get a
drink of water and water his horse As he bent over the spring to drink,
someone shot him through the back of the head. No one was ever apprehended.
There was a lot of bitterness after the war and it was surmised that either
someone settled and old grudge or it was just plain robbery.
He died 28-Mar-1870, five years after the war was over.----------------Joe B. Lynn.

Dr. Uriah Thomas Brown, enlisted at Camp Zollicoffer, Livingston, Tn. 11-Aug-1861
as a Capt. 28th Regt., Tennessee Volunteers. Appointed Lt. Colonel of the Regt.
18-Mar-1862, and promoted to Colonel, date not shown. Other records show that
he was appointed Assit. Surgeon in the Medical Department, C.S.A., , 17-Feb-1861,
and was to take rank on 24-Dec-1861. He was assigned to duty as Surgeon on 15-Sep-1862.
He entered contract with Colonel P. D. Cunningham of the CSA. He resigned his
commission 27-Nov-1862, because of ill health, to take effect 10-Dec-1862.
This from a letter written by, Major General E. S. Adams, Adjutant General, to Mary
B. Barbour dated 25-Jun-1938.------------------JBL 1998.

Note: John H.L. Brown, mentioned in his Pension Application that Captain Uriah T. Brown
was promoted to Lt. Colonel, after the battle of Shiloh in West Tennessee.

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