JOSHUA
BROWN
CIVIL WAR SOLDIER
Joshua Brown the son of Evalina Susan Bailey Brown and Joshua Brown,Sr.
died 02-21-1924 at his Miami winter home. He was native of Clarksville
and on 02-25-1924 buried in the Riverview Cemetery along side of his
parents. Joshua faught in the civil war and joined the Confederacy
after the recapture of Clarksville. He served along side of Sam
Davis- the boy hero of Tennessee-. Joshua was taken POW twice- at
Pulaski Tn and later held at Rock Island Illinois. Brown and Davis
served with Coleman's Scouts a Confederacy unit that gathered
intelligence on federals movement and were caught in the act
of transporting documents back to Cnfederacy headquarters. Davis
was hung for refusing to give up his source of intelligence
documents. Joshua Brown's obit appeared in the 2-25-1924 Leaf
-Chronicle paper.
Joshua was the grandson of Jessee Bailey and Elizabeth Woodson
Bailey of Clarksville. The Bailey's plantation was on the land
that is now the Clarksville Country Club golfcourse.
