William Brown

Title

William Brown

Aliases

William Grimball

Date

4 September 1890-29 August 1918

Description

Regiment: 2nd United States Colored Troops Light Artillery
Company: G
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: May 1863 at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
Mustered-out date and place: August 1865 at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States

Other locations listed during time of service: Not listed
Comrades mentioned: William Mitchell; Thomas Huntington; Peter Robertson; William Green; Frank Bailey; Joseph Aiken; George Bryan; Sambo Draden; Fred Draden; Charles Taylor; Cuffe Pope; John Nesbitt; Carolina Alston; Profit Strawbridge; Charles Ford; Jack Hardy; Jim Hessit; John Snipe; Abram; Binyard, William Wallace; Tuff Fripp; John Fiall; Alfred Bryan; Friday Duffey

Edward Alston

Name(s) of spouse: Emma Jordan Brown; Hagar Brown, Emma Brown (former spouses)
Children: Matilda Brown (daughter with Hagar)

Veteran's birth date and location: ~1835 John Island, South Carolina, United States
Plantation(s): Not listed
Enslaver(s): Paul C. Chaplin (1788-1864); Pauline Grimball McFaddin (1830-1888)

Parents of veteran: Scipio and Bess Brown
Other listed family members: Columbus; Jacob; Richard; Becky

Wife's place of birth: Florence, South Carolina
Wife's enslaver: Edward Porcher
Wife's parents: Not listed
Wife's other family members: Not listed

Creator

Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions

Publisher

National Archives and Records Administration

Type

Document

Format

Portable Document Format

Language

English

Coverage

United States of America

Rights

Public Domain | All records should be cited as coming from the Center Family History at the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, United States.