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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2 2 0 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 2: Barnstable County. (search)
sum of $20 be immediately raised by subscription, as a bounty for each man who would enlist in the campaign. Six hundred and twenty dollars were pledged in the course of the evening in sums varying from $5 to $70,—Major Phinny contributing the seventy dollars, and promising a stand of colors to the company when formed. The Sandwich company was formed, and was among the first three-years companies that went to the war.at which Messrs. Theodore Kern, Jonathan Leonard, Charles Southack, Benjamin F. Brown, and Charles Dillingham were chosen a committee, to see what action the town should take in regard to war matters. The committee reported as follows:— First, That the treasurer of the town be authorized, with the assent and at the discretion of the selectmen, to borrow a sum not exceeding four thousand dollars, in sums as shall be needed for the benefit of the families of those in this town who may enlist in the service of the Government, in defence of our constitutional liberties.
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
1879 Captain Brown was engaged in farming and milling in King William county, and then removed to South Carolina, where he has had a very successful career in the cotton trade. Since 1887 his home has been at Greenville. He is a comrade of R. C. Pulliam camp, U. C. V., has served six years upon the city council, and is chairman of the fire and water committee of that body. In September, 1866, he was married to Mildred H. Semple, of Essex county, Va., and they have four daughters. Benjamin F. Brown, M. D., was born at Anderson Court House, S. C., February 4, 1833. He is the son of Daniel Brown, who was born in Abbeville county, a merchant and planter and one of the original directors of the Greenville & Columbia railroad, now a part of the Southern railway system. He removed to Anderson Court House, now Anderson City, in 1831, and was there engaged in merchandising till his death in 1876. The mother of Dr. Brown was Rhoda Acker, who died when he was but five years old. When he