Henry Clay Brown

Son of a prosperous merchant, in 1860 he was a 15 year old living with his parents and 5 siblings near Flint Hill in Carroll County, GA. He enlisted in Bowdon, GA on 30 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, Cobb's Legion Infantry and was appointed 3rd Sergeant by December 1861.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left leg in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and captured.

He leg was amputated above the knee at the US 6th Army Corps hospital at Burkittsville, MD and he was admitted to US Army General Hospital. He was sent on for exchange on 13 December and was admitted to a hospital in Petersburg, VA on 16 December 1862. He was sent home on furlough on 16 February 1863. He did not return to field duty, but was on the company rolls into January 1865, the last record in his military file.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a school teacher at Rock Mills in Randolph County, AL. In 1900, still teaching, he lived with his son Joseph and family at Carrollton back in Carroll County, GA.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Frances Abigail "Fannie" Colquitt (1843-1933) in September 1865 and they had 5 children.

02/19/1844 in GA

05/13/1913; Carroll County, GA; burial in Carrollton City Cemetery, Carrollton, GA