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Luther Warfield Brown was just 15 years old when he set out w'alking from Sperryville to Richmond, determined to offer his services to his counry in the Spanish-American War of 1898.
According to his daughter, Sperryville postmaster Aileen Johnson, Brown wanted to enlist in the 3rd Virginia Volunteer Infantry’s Company B. Because of his youth, the young man was sent back home to get permission from his family. “He used to say that he wore out a pair of shoes that were thin to start with on that walk,” Mrs. Johnson recalled.
With the approval of his folks, Luther Brown joined 22 other Rappahannock men in the Volunteers. Captain Thomas E. grimsley, leader of the company, took a fatherly interest in the boy and kept him busy running relatively safe errands as an unofficial orderly. “That’s all I can remember my father saying about the war,” Mrs.
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