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I show conflicting information on Captain B. G. Brown. The Gettysburg Magazine article in issue 12 indicates Brown died in captivity, but the book Nothing But Glory by Harrison/Busey shows that Brown was released on 30 May 1865. A roll of the company compiled by W. A. Parrott in Southern Historical Society Papers vol. XXIV (1896), p. 115, merely states that Brown was dead as of that date. The company was organized at White Hall near Charlottesville on May 1861. The diary of George P. Clarke (a Sergeant in the company) at the Library of Virginia in Richmond does not mention Captain Brown's fate but does relate some activities of the company. For instance the company was detailed to guard the town of Chambersburg PA on 27 June 1863 just days before the battle of Gettysburg, and they spent a comfortable night in the town hall. The next morning the men feasted on molasses requisitioned from a store. A detail was made on 30 June to burn rails and fences and destroy public property around Chambersburg. In Pickett's charge, Captain Brown was wounded in the leg and afterwards captured. His Lieutenant, A. H. Good, was also wounded and captured and taken to David's Island, NY, where he died at 1130 on the morning of 29 August. After Colonel W. Tarwell Patton was mortally wounded in the charge, Captain Alphonso H. Jones of Company K led the regiment.

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