Benjamin Austin | Richard Bailey | Enos W. Brazelton | William Blount | Burwell Boykin | Wesley Brown | William Bryant | James Brown | Thomas Caldwell | Benjamin Caraway | Allen Capps | George Carter | James Cathey | David Chapman | Henry L Chapman | John F. Chapman | T. W. Casay | William B Cathay | William L. Cathey
Wesley Brown
*Wesley Brown
*Wesley Brown enlisted 18 Nov 1861 in Perry County at the age of 25 as a private. The record for his parole at the end of the Civil War lists his place of residence as Marengo County, Alabama. Capt Samuel Jennings Murphy enlisted Wesley into Capt. Murphy's Company Alabama Mounted Volunteers for a period of 12 months. This company later became F Company. Wesley served for the entire war and at the end of the war he was paroled at Demopolis, Alabama on 9 June 1865.
Wesley's horse was valued at $275 and his horse equipment at $25.
Wesley is counted on the following Company Muster rolls:
18 Nov to 31 Dec 1861
30 Apr to 30 Jun 1863
31 Oct to 31 Dec 1863
The card for the October muster roll is interesting. It has the date 15 Feb 1864 and it lists Wesley as being absent and there is the following remark: under arrest by order of Genl. Martin.
*Wesley was born in 1835 in Alabama. In 1850 he was living in Perry County, Alabama. He was15 years old in 1850 and he was living with the schoolteacher, John M Ken. Listed in the household above him was Louisa Brown age 13.
In 1860, just before he joined the war, Wesley was employed as an overseer in Marengo county.
A card from the Alabama archives listed that Wesley moved to Texas. I found him in Brazos County, Texas on the 1870 census. He is listed with a total real estate value of 22,200.
There was a marriage in Perry County for Wesley Brown and Amelia Cry on 24 Dec 1868. But if this him, then for some reason she is not listed with him in Texas two years later. It is possible that she died.
Sources
1. United States. Record and Pension Office., Compiled Service records of Confederate soldiers who served in organizations from the state of Alabama., Washington C. C. : The National Archives, 1961-1962.Third Alabama Cavalry A-D 1861-1865 FHL#0880338.
2. 1860 Federal Census, Alabama, Marengo county, Township 18 R 5 E, page 393.
3. Alabama Department of Archives and History, Alabama Confederate Service Cards, Name on cards: Wesley Brown and W. Brown, Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama. Microfilm cards "From an 8 x 5 card file maintained by the Alabama Department of Archives and History from the early 1900s until 1982. As staff came across information related to Alabama individuals during the American Civil War a card was created. Information on individuals exempted from military service or who served in the militia or home guard is included. If new information was discovered from another source, another card was created. Multiple cards for an individual often exist. Sources include muster rolls, governors' correspondence, veterans' censuses, manuscript collections, newspapers and pension records. Names, places and events are often inconsistently spelled.".
4. Alabama Department of Archives and History, Alabama 3 Reg file box Typed copy of Muster roll dated 31 October 1864, Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama.Listed as Brown, Wesley.
5. 1850 Federal Census, Alabama, Perry County, Pole Cat Beat, page 303
6. 1870 Federal Census, Texas, Brazao County, page 112
7. Perry County Marriages
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By Susette Cook