Joseph Alleine Brown
Second Lieutenant, Confederate States of America Army
His mother was an invalid and the family moved from state to state until she found eternal rest on the banks of the Sewanee River in Florida. After her death. the two boys, Alleine and Jack, were sent to Charleston, West Virginia to live with an uncle. It is here that the Memoirs begin.
After the war. Mr. Brown studied medicine under his cousin, the noted Dr. Robert Morrison. who had been a surgeon on the staff of General Robert E. Lee. Late in the summer of 1867. he went to Texas to seek his fortune. For many years he was Professor of Music at Baylor College. He married Mrs. Minnie Reaville Traynham. the daughter of Captain B. F. Reaville formerly an officer in the army of General Sam Houston, who aided in securing the state of Texas from Mexico. Mr. Brown lived in Texas until 1913 when he moved to Washington. D. C., where he became the private secretary of Congressman J. P. Buchanan and in whose service he remained until his death, January 27, 1929.
He now rests in Arlington, the first Confederate to receive a full military funeral.
His children, three of whom are living and one, Ashby Luther, a victim of the World War, are Reaville Moore, Mrs. Alleine Brown Austin, wife of Erle Harris Austin, and Cecil Mathews Brown.
2nd Lieutenant, 22nd VA Infantry
Confederate Section
Arlington National Cemetery
2D LT 22nd VA INF CSA
Married: 13 July 1880 Mrs. Minnie Raeville Traywham.
Author: Brown, Joseph Alleine, 1841-1929.
Title: The memoirs of a Confederate soldier: Joseph Alleine Brown
as told to his grandson, Samuel Hunter Austin.
Published: Abingdon, Virginia: Forum Press, c1940, 48 p.
LC Call: E581.5 22nd.B76 1940
Dewey: 973.7/455 19
Confederate States of America. Army.
22nd Virginia Infantry Regiment
Company H: Kanawha Riflemen
Appont Corp 2/2/63 WIA Droop Mtn, 11/6/63
2nd Lt: 7/64, Capt Winchester 9/19/64
POW Ft Deleware, 6/17/65
Light Complexion, Lt Hair, Blue eyes