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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John L. Brown

(c. 1839 - 1864)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 48th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 21 year old farmer living with his parents and 6 siblings on their small farm at Statesville in Iredell County< NC. He enlisted there on 1 March 1862 and mustered on 17 April at Camp Mangum near Raleigh as a Private in Company C, 48th North Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.

The rest of the War

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to about 19 September and afterward transferred south for exchange. He was furloughed from a hospital in Richmond, VA on 23 October and returned on 22 November 1862. He was with his unit to at least April 1864, the latest record in his military file. He was probably killed or in battle at Spotsylvania Court House, VA in May 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1839; Iredell County, NC

Death

05/1864; Spotsylvania Court House, VA; burial in Spotsylvania Confederate Cemetery, Spotsylvania Courthouse, VA

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 34719]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #456 [AotW citation 34720]

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