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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Peter Mock Brown

(c. 1838 - 1906)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 23 year old laborer living with his parents and siblings at Greensboro in Guilford County, NC. He enlisted at Fort Macon, NC on 20 April 1861 and mustered as Private, Company B, 27th North Carolina Infantry on 20 June.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the thigh and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was held at Fort McHenry in Baltimore and sent to Fortress Monroe, VA on 18 October. He was admitted to a Richmond, VA hospital on 29 October then furloughed for 40 days on 6 (or 7) November. He was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862. He was detailed to Gordonsville, VA from 14 February 1864 into October, and was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a blacksmith at Browntown/Abbot's Creek, Davidson County, NC. In 1900, still a blacksmith, he was back in Guilford County and lived with his daughter Mollie and sister Polly.

References & notes

His service from Wilson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

He married Martha Adeline White (1846-1885) in October 1867 and they had 7 children.

Birth

c. 1838 in NC

Death

05/11/1906; in NC

Notes

1 Wilson, William P., Adjutant, Casualty list of the 27th N.C.S.T. at Sharpsburg, North Carolina Standard, 1862-10-15 [AotW citation 9829]

2 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 32093]

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