O. T. Brown letter
Collection
Identifier: W-0154
Scope and Contents
This letter written by O. T. Brown of San Marcos, Texas, to the president of the Texas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, is more of a treatise on how no one had yet been able to adequately describe for the next generations the emotional part of the Civil War rather than describing any actual engagements he had seen. He mentions that he spent a significant portion of the war as a prisoner of war in a prison on an island in one of the Great Lakes near the Canadian border.
Dates
- 1898-05-26
Creator
- Williams, A. S., III (Collector, Person)
Biographical / Historical
Ossian Tigner (O. T.) Brown, was born to Dr. Charles Anderson Brown from Savannah, Georgia, and Mary Mulkey Brown from Jones County, Georgia, in about 1836.
A native of Georgia from Meriwether County, he served in the Confederate States Army (CSA) in Company C of the Fourth Alabama Infantry Regiment, which was originally organized at Dalton, Georgia, on May 2, 1861. He was captured at some point early in the war and spent a considerable time in a prison camp on an island in one of the Great Lakes near the Canadian border.
After the war, he relocated to Texas, where he met and married Elizabeth Pauline Belvin on November 13, 1877, in Hays County, Texas (probably in the San Marcos area). Elizabeth was the daughter of a prominent local Methodist minister and educator, the Reverend R. H. Belvin and his wife, Caroline W. Mitchell Belvin. The couple four children: Caroline Belvin Brown; Mary Ossian Brown; Charlotte Woodmancy Brown; and Lillian Robert Brown.
Brown became a successful San Marcos attorney and civic leader and was very involved in the Methodist Church in the San Marcos area. Ossian Tigner Brown passed away from a cerebral hemorrhage in San Marcos, Hays, Texas, on August 7, 1935.
Source: Find A Grave website
A native of Georgia from Meriwether County, he served in the Confederate States Army (CSA) in Company C of the Fourth Alabama Infantry Regiment, which was originally organized at Dalton, Georgia, on May 2, 1861. He was captured at some point early in the war and spent a considerable time in a prison camp on an island in one of the Great Lakes near the Canadian border.
After the war, he relocated to Texas, where he met and married Elizabeth Pauline Belvin on November 13, 1877, in Hays County, Texas (probably in the San Marcos area). Elizabeth was the daughter of a prominent local Methodist minister and educator, the Reverend R. H. Belvin and his wife, Caroline W. Mitchell Belvin. The couple four children: Caroline Belvin Brown; Mary Ossian Brown; Charlotte Woodmancy Brown; and Lillian Robert Brown.
Brown became a successful San Marcos attorney and civic leader and was very involved in the Methodist Church in the San Marcos area. Ossian Tigner Brown passed away from a cerebral hemorrhage in San Marcos, Hays, Texas, on August 7, 1935.
Source: Find A Grave website
Extent
0.05 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Overview
Letter from O. T. Brown to the president of the Texas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy describing his experiences as a soldier during the Civil War.
Physical Location
A. S. Williams III Americana Collection, Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library, They University of Alabama
Provenance
Gift of A. S. Williams III, 2010
General
Title on box: A. S. Williams III Americana Collection - Civil War materials
Processed by
Martha Bace, 2014
Source
- Williams, A. S., III (Donor, Person)
Creator
- Williams, A. S., III (Collector, Person)
- Brown, Ossian (Author, Person)
- Title
- Guide to O. T. Brown letter
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- January 2014
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections Repository