Died, at Oak Hill, Missouri, in the battle of August last, Captain Thomas Brown of Van Buren, Arkansas.
When North Carolina shall gather the ashes of her brave sons who have sealed their devotion to the cause of southern independence with their hearts blood and shall not forget those who fought in the ranks of patriots from sister states.
About two years ago, the subject of this brief notice, after graduating with great promise from the University of the state and obtaining from our Supreme Court a license to practice law, left his home in North Carolina to pursue a fortune in the west.
Locating in Van Buren, he had just embarked upon a career which, if pursued, would have amply realized for him the high expectations of his friends, when Arkansas joined the southern Confederacy and called upon her sons to battle. Although he was a comparative stranger among them he was so highly respected that he held a command of a company and was under the command of General McCulloch.
The official report of the Battle of Oak Hill tells the rest. He fell "while gallantly fighting at the head of his company". On that bloody battle field he proved himself
worthy of his native state. In the land of strangers far from his parental home, "sleeps the sleep that knows no waking". He fills an honored grave.
Front Guard Grandiots 3 Ark. Inf. CSA
He was the Captain of the Van Buren Frontier Guards, summoned to battle at Wilson's Creek Missouri in 1861, and killed on the first day of battle.
Military Obituaries Summer - Fall 1861
Diane Siniard
Died, at Oak Hill, Missouri, in the battle of August last, Captain Thomas Brown of Van Buren, Arkansas.
When North Carolina shall gather the ashes of her brave sons who have sealed their devotion to the cause of southern independence with their hearts blood and shall not forget those who fought in the ranks of patriots from sister states.
About two years ago, the subject of this brief notice, after graduating with great promise from the University of the state and obtaining from our Supreme Court a license to practice law, left his home in North Carolina to pursue a fortune in the west.
Locating in Van Buren, he had just embarked upon a career which, if pursued, would have amply realized for him the high expectations of his friends, when Arkansas joined the southern Confederacy and called upon her sons to battle. Although he was a comparative stranger among them he was so highly respected that he held a command of a company and was under the command of General McCulloch.
The official report of the Battle of Oak Hill tells the rest. He fell "while gallantly fighting at the head of his company". On that bloody battle field he proved himself
worthy of his native state. In the land of strangers far from his parental home, "sleeps the sleep that knows no waking". He fills an honored grave.
Front Guard Grandiots 3 Ark. Inf. CSA
He was the Captain of the Van Buren Frontier Guards, summoned to battle at Wilson's Creek Missouri in 1861, and killed on the first day of battle.
Military Obituaries Summer - Fall 1861
Diane Siniard
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