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Brother Henry was a blacksmith in West Virginia when the war began. “He came back home to Rappahannock and volunteered... Henry was never scared. He’d get up in the morning and say, ‘Come on! Let’s get those d— Yankees!” Mrs. Brown recalled from family stories. “He was wounded with Jackson and after that, Henry became a conscript man. On his travels in search of men who were evading military service, it was said that he always got his quarry, Mrs. Brown added.
Henry was taken prisoner by the Union forces and held 11 months on an island off the coast of New York, she noted.
All three brothers lived through the conflict and returned to Rappahannock County. James Marshall Brown ran a farm until he was cal&d to preach at a Baptist Church in his later years, Mrs. Brown said.
According to “My Rappahannock Story Book,” the county history written by Mary Elizabeth Hite, James Marshall Brown married more couples than any other minister in Virginia. They came to “Preacher Brown,” as he was affectionately known, from Hazel Mountain, Old Rag Mountain and the valleys, Hite wrote.
Mrs. Frank Brown had a little journal kept by Preacher Brown’s wife, listing all the men and women he joined together in matrimony. But the journal detailing the former veteran’s more gentle calling was burned in the fire that recently destroyed her home.
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