Brown enlisted in the Cumberland Light Dragoons, Co. G of the 3rd VA Cavalry, as a private on June 24, 1861.He was promoted to 2nd lieutenant on April 15, 1862. Shortly afterwards his rank went back to private when the company was reorganized. He was paroled April 28, 1865 in Farmville, VA.
After the war, he was briefly a merchant in Virginia and then moved to Missouri and became a farmer. He returned to Virginia in the 1880s and was a tobacco manufacturer in Lynchburg. In 1893 he moved back to Missouri and farmed until he retired in 1905. Brown died in Missouri in 1931 at the age of 95 and is buried in Mount Carmel Cemetery in Fairville, Saline County, MO.
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