W. Brown
Newspaper, July 30, 1919.
SURRENDERED WITH JEFF DAVIS.
W. Brown, an old Ex-Confederate of Pilot Point, Texas, was here Tuesday attending the picnic. He came to attend the dinner given the old soldiers by the Daughters of the Confederacy at the home of Gen. and Mrs. E. W. Kirkpatrick, but his train was late and he did not arrive until afternoon. Mr. Brown formerly lived at Celina and several years ago lived in the Hedgcoxe community this county.
Mr. Brown was in the Civil War although he was only 17 years of age. he was a member of Co. H, Tennessee Cavalry, Dibble’s Brigade. He surrendered with Jeff Davis at Washington, Georgia, on the morning of May 9, at which time Davis paid the men, about 2600 in number, $26.75 in gold and silver, paying the officers the same as the enlisted men. General Robert Lee had surrendered ten days before this time. Mr. Brown said it was Jeff Davis’ intention to come through Texas and go into Mexico and thereby escape capture at the hands of the Union soldiers. In planning this he selected Dibbles’ brigade at Greensburg, North Carolina to escort him to the Mexican border. But finding this almost impossible when he paid off his men at Washington, Georgia, he called for thirty volunteers to escort him safely into Mexico. After paying off his men on the morning of May 9, he left en route to Mexico, but Mr. Brown said that he was captured about thirty hours later.
Mr. Brown is a special friend of Lieut. H. H. Neilson, recently returned from France and visited him while here. Mr. Neilson boarded in the home of Mr. Browns at Pilot Point for two years.
Newspaper, July 30, 1919.
SURRENDERED WITH JEFF DAVIS.
W. Brown, an old Ex-Confederate of Pilot Point, Texas, was here Tuesday attending the picnic. He came to attend the dinner given the old soldiers by the Daughters of the Confederacy at the home of Gen. and Mrs. E. W. Kirkpatrick, but his train was late and he did not arrive until afternoon. Mr. Brown formerly lived at Celina and several years ago lived in the Hedgcoxe community this county.
Mr. Brown was in the Civil War although he was only 17 years of age. he was a member of Co. H, Tennessee Cavalry, Dibble’s Brigade. He surrendered with Jeff Davis at Washington, Georgia, on the morning of May 9, at which time Davis paid the men, about 2600 in number, $26.75 in gold and silver, paying the officers the same as the enlisted men. General Robert Lee had surrendered ten days before this time. Mr. Brown said it was Jeff Davis’ intention to come through Texas and go into Mexico and thereby escape capture at the hands of the Union soldiers. In planning this he selected Dibbles’ brigade at Greensburg, North Carolina to escort him to the Mexican border. But finding this almost impossible when he paid off his men at Washington, Georgia, he called for thirty volunteers to escort him safely into Mexico. After paying off his men on the morning of May 9, he left en route to Mexico, but Mr. Brown said that he was captured about thirty hours later.
Mr. Brown is a special friend of Lieut. H. H. Neilson, recently returned from France and visited him while here. Mr. Neilson boarded in the home of Mr. Browns at Pilot Point for two years.
