Milton A. Brown

b. circa 1842
  • Milton A. Brown was born circa 1842 in Alabama.
  • Eliza Dixon Hall appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Montgomery County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Milton A. Brown, John R. Brown, Thomas Bolling Brown, George Washington Brown and Mary Eliza Brown.
  • Eliza Dixon Hall appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Montgomery, Alabama. Other members of the household included Milton A. Brown, Thomas Bolling Brown, John W. Brown and Thomas B. Brown. Thomas and his children also were enumerated as a separate family elsewhere in Montgomery County.
  • The following appeared on 20 June 1860 in the Daily Confederation: State of Alabama, Montgomery Co. Special Court of Probate, June 8, 1860. This day came Eliza D. Brown, Administratrix of the estate of Thos. Brown, dec'd, and filed her accounts and vouchers for money laid out and expended for the use and benefit of M. A. Brown, a minor, which was examined and ordered to be filed for the inspection of all concerned, and ordered that the 5th day of July, 1860, be set for the hearing of this application.      
    And it is therefore ordered that notice of this application and the day set for the hearing thereof, be given by publication for three successive weeks in the Confederation, a newspaper published in the county of Montgomery, notifying all persons interested to be and appear before a Court to be held on the 5th day of July next, 1860, to show cause, if any, why said accounts should not be stated and allowed. David Campbell, Judge of Probate. June15W3t.
  • It has proved difficult to follow Milton A. Brown and John R. Brown forward, except that it appears that they both served in the military during the Civil war. It is an educated guess that the following military record is applicable.
  • Milton A. Brown, age 18, enrolled in Montgomery on 30 April 1861, for a period of 12 months, as a private in Captain James H. Clanton's Company (Montgomery Mounted Rifles), Alabama Volunteers, and later reenlisted for the period of the war. This company subsequently became Company K, 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment, CSA. (In November 1862 Company K was consolidated with Company H to form Company E of that regiment, although sometime prior to 30 June 1864, the companies resumed their former designations.)
         Also, M. A. (or M. E.) Brown enlisted 7 April 1862 in Clay Hill for the period of the war as a corporal in Company A, 60th Alabama Infantry, appearing on the company muster roll for January/February 1865. He appeared on a register of General Hospital, Howard's Grove, Richmond, Virginia, admitted and returned to duty in November 1864, and on a roll of prisoners of war surrendered at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on 9 April 1865. Research Note: It has not yet been established whether this Milton A. Brown was the son of Thomas and Eliza Dixon Hall Brown.
  • Last Edited: 28 May 2014