John Brown
John Brown was born around 1843 in Maine to Samuel and Lucretia Brown. His father was a farmer who owned $700 of real estate by 1850. He grew up and attended school in Hollis, Maine, and his father died in 1853.
He enlisted in the Union army on October 4, 1861, and he mustered in as a private in Company H of the 12th Maine Infantry on November 15. The regiment took part in the siege of Port Hudson. He died of chronic diarrhea in Carrollton, Louisiana, on November 13, 1863.
DATABASE CONTENT
| (3422) | Brown, John | 1843 | 1863-11-13 |
- Conflict Side: Union
- Role: Soldier
- Rank in: Private
- Rank out: Private
- Rank highest: Private
- Gender: Male
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 15
- (9273) [writer] ~ John Brown to Lucretia Brown, 15 December 1861
- (9274) [writer] ~ John Brown to Lucretia Brown, 23 January 1862
- (9275) [writer] ~ John Brown to Lucretia Brown, 27 May 1862
- (9276) [writer] ~ John Brown to Lucretia Brown, 7 August 1862
- (9277) [writer] ~ John Brown to Lucretia Brown, 19 August 1862
- (9278) [writer] ~ John Brown to Lucretia Brown, 31 September 1862
- (9279) [writer] ~ John Brown to Lucretia Brown, 20 January 1863
- (9280) [writer] ~ John Brown to Lucretia Brown, 1 March 1863
- (9281) [writer] ~ John Brown to Lucretia Brown, 8 June 1863
- (9282) [writer] ~ John Brown to Lucretia Brown, 24 June 1863
- (9283) [writer] ~ John Brown to Lucretia Brown, 25 August 1863
- (9284) [writer] ~ John Brown to Lucretia Brown, 26 September 1863
- (9285) [writer] ~ John Brown to Lucretia Brown, 6 October 1863
- (9286) [writer] ~ John Brown to Lucretia Brown, 9 November 1863
- (9287) [writer] ~ John Brown to Lucretia Brown, August 186X
People - Records: 1
- (3423) Brown, Lucretia is the [parent of] (3422) Brown, John
Places - Records: 3
Regiments - Records: 1
- (315) [enlisted] [H] ~ 12th Maine Infantry
SOURCES
1850 and 1860 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com
