Served as a Private, Company C, 3rd Arkansas Regiment, Colonel Pleasants Brigade, General Hindmans' Division, Confederate States Army
Son of Jackson Brown and Rachael Caraway
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BROWN, WILLIAM F.
Goldthwaite, Texas - born Nov. 28, 1841, near Coffyville, Miss. Enlisted in the Confederate Army June 3, 1861, at Pine Bluff, Ark., as private in Compnay C., Third Arkansas Regiment, Col Pleasant's Brigade, Gen. Hindman's Division, trans-Mississippi Department; McSwaine, first Captain and Morgan, first Colonel. Was never changed, wounded, captured nor promoted. Was in the battles of Prairie Grove, Jenkin's Ferry and Yellow Bayou....
In 1861 Gen. Thomas Hindman was sent across the Mississippi River to organize the Trans-Mississippi Army. Then volunteers were called for. I , with others, responded to the call. On the third day of June 1861, I was sworn in to service for three years or during the war. My company and regiment were organized, then took steamboat for Little Rock, Ark. To draw guns. Then we were drilled for several months and sent to Duvalls Bluff on White River, Ark to guard that post. We were then sent further up the river to keep the Yanks from getting possession of White River. In July 1862 we were ordered to meet gen. Blount's army and it took us until the following December to meet him. During this time the boys died in great numbers with measles. In December we fought the battle of Prairie Grove. We were then ordered back to Fort Smith, Ark. We were fighting most every day , but no regular engagement. We had nothing to eat but meal and sometimes a little poor beef. We were then ordered south to meet Steele and cut him off from Red River, which we did. We met him at Jenkin's Ferry on the Saline River, fought him all day in the rain and water, drove him back and won the battle. I can not in this short paper give a full account of my soldier life. (Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray 1861 - 1865, Compiled by Mamie Yeary, McGregor, Texas, Published by Wilkinson Printing Company, Dallas, Tex., 1912
Contributor: Sherry (47010546)
Son of Jackson Brown and Rachael Caraway
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BROWN, WILLIAM F.
Goldthwaite, Texas - born Nov. 28, 1841, near Coffyville, Miss. Enlisted in the Confederate Army June 3, 1861, at Pine Bluff, Ark., as private in Compnay C., Third Arkansas Regiment, Col Pleasant's Brigade, Gen. Hindman's Division, trans-Mississippi Department; McSwaine, first Captain and Morgan, first Colonel. Was never changed, wounded, captured nor promoted. Was in the battles of Prairie Grove, Jenkin's Ferry and Yellow Bayou....
In 1861 Gen. Thomas Hindman was sent across the Mississippi River to organize the Trans-Mississippi Army. Then volunteers were called for. I , with others, responded to the call. On the third day of June 1861, I was sworn in to service for three years or during the war. My company and regiment were organized, then took steamboat for Little Rock, Ark. To draw guns. Then we were drilled for several months and sent to Duvalls Bluff on White River, Ark to guard that post. We were then sent further up the river to keep the Yanks from getting possession of White River. In July 1862 we were ordered to meet gen. Blount's army and it took us until the following December to meet him. During this time the boys died in great numbers with measles. In December we fought the battle of Prairie Grove. We were then ordered back to Fort Smith, Ark. We were fighting most every day , but no regular engagement. We had nothing to eat but meal and sometimes a little poor beef. We were then ordered south to meet Steele and cut him off from Red River, which we did. We met him at Jenkin's Ferry on the Saline River, fought him all day in the rain and water, drove him back and won the battle. I can not in this short paper give a full account of my soldier life. (Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray 1861 - 1865, Compiled by Mamie Yeary, McGregor, Texas, Published by Wilkinson Printing Company, Dallas, Tex., 1912
Contributor: Sherry (47010546)
Served as a Private, Company C, 3rd Arkansas Regiment, Colonel Pleasants Brigade, General Hindmans' Division, Confederate States Army
Son of Jackson Brown and Rachael Caraway
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BROWN, WILLIAM F.
Goldthwaite, Texas - born Nov. 28, 1841, near Coffyville, Miss. Enlisted in the Confederate Army June 3, 1861, at Pine Bluff, Ark., as private in Compnay C., Third Arkansas Regiment, Col Pleasant's Brigade, Gen. Hindman's Division, trans-Mississippi Department; McSwaine, first Captain and Morgan, first Colonel. Was never changed, wounded, captured nor promoted. Was in the battles of Prairie Grove, Jenkin's Ferry and Yellow Bayou....
In 1861 Gen. Thomas Hindman was sent across the Mississippi River to organize the Trans-Mississippi Army. Then volunteers were called for. I , with others, responded to the call. On the third day of June 1861, I was sworn in to service for three years or during the war. My company and regiment were organized, then took steamboat for Little Rock, Ark. To draw guns. Then we were drilled for several months and sent to Duvalls Bluff on White River, Ark to guard that post. We were then sent further up the river to keep the Yanks from getting possession of White River. In July 1862 we were ordered to meet gen. Blount's army and it took us until the following December to meet him. During this time the boys died in great numbers with measles. In December we fought the battle of Prairie Grove. We were then ordered back to Fort Smith, Ark. We were fighting most every day , but no regular engagement. We had nothing to eat but meal and sometimes a little poor beef. We were then ordered south to meet Steele and cut him off from Red River, which we did. We met him at Jenkin's Ferry on the Saline River, fought him all day in the rain and water, drove him back and won the battle. I can not in this short paper give a full account of my soldier life. (Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray 1861 - 1865, Compiled by Mamie Yeary, McGregor, Texas, Published by Wilkinson Printing Company, Dallas, Tex., 1912
Contributor: Sherry (47010546)
Son of Jackson Brown and Rachael Caraway
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BROWN, WILLIAM F.
Goldthwaite, Texas - born Nov. 28, 1841, near Coffyville, Miss. Enlisted in the Confederate Army June 3, 1861, at Pine Bluff, Ark., as private in Compnay C., Third Arkansas Regiment, Col Pleasant's Brigade, Gen. Hindman's Division, trans-Mississippi Department; McSwaine, first Captain and Morgan, first Colonel. Was never changed, wounded, captured nor promoted. Was in the battles of Prairie Grove, Jenkin's Ferry and Yellow Bayou....
In 1861 Gen. Thomas Hindman was sent across the Mississippi River to organize the Trans-Mississippi Army. Then volunteers were called for. I , with others, responded to the call. On the third day of June 1861, I was sworn in to service for three years or during the war. My company and regiment were organized, then took steamboat for Little Rock, Ark. To draw guns. Then we were drilled for several months and sent to Duvalls Bluff on White River, Ark to guard that post. We were then sent further up the river to keep the Yanks from getting possession of White River. In July 1862 we were ordered to meet gen. Blount's army and it took us until the following December to meet him. During this time the boys died in great numbers with measles. In December we fought the battle of Prairie Grove. We were then ordered back to Fort Smith, Ark. We were fighting most every day , but no regular engagement. We had nothing to eat but meal and sometimes a little poor beef. We were then ordered south to meet Steele and cut him off from Red River, which we did. We met him at Jenkin's Ferry on the Saline River, fought him all day in the rain and water, drove him back and won the battle. I can not in this short paper give a full account of my soldier life. (Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray 1861 - 1865, Compiled by Mamie Yeary, McGregor, Texas, Published by Wilkinson Printing Company, Dallas, Tex., 1912
Contributor: Sherry (47010546)
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