John McCray Brown
Name: John McCray Brown
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 126th PA Inf.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Franklin County, PA
Enlistment Date: 08/02/1862
Company: K
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Enlisted at Greencastle, PA; Promotions: To Wagon master 10-08-1862; Unfit for duty for 60 days as of 01-27-1863; could not hear well when enlisted but "suffered no inconvenience on account of it though for the last two months he has been so very deaf that he could not hear commands"; Discharge: camp near Falmouth Va., disability, by order of Maj. Gen. Sykes; chronic diarrhea 2/7/1863
Source(s):
Franklin County, Pennsylvania, Soldiers Records, Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War, Virginia Center for Digital History, University of Virginia (http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/dossier_record?q=db:dossiers_franklin AND id_num:847).
