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Rh the time of the passage of the ordinance of secession, in April, 1861, he was one of the band of enthusiastic students who joined the State forces in the occupation of Harper's Ferry. In May, 1861, he enlisted in a company organized in his native county, as a private, and at the completion of the organization in June was made orderly-sergeant. The company was mustered in soon after as Company F of the Forty-seventh Virginia regiment of infantry, when he was commissioned second lieutenant. In the latter rank he served until the spring of 1862, when he was promoted first lieutenant of Company F. During the period in which he held the latter rank, he for a part of the time acted as adjutant of the regiment, and at another time commanded a detail of seventy or eighty sharpshooters. In February, 1863, he was promoted captain and subsequently commanded his company until after the first day's battle at Gettysburg, when he was called, as assistant inspector-general, to the staff of Col. John M. Brockenbrough, in command of the brigade. His subsequent service was on the brigade staff with Colonel Brockenbrough and his successors. Gen. H. H. Walker, Gen. James Fry and Gen. Seth Barton. His military career embraced the battles of Seven Pines, Mechanicsville, Cold Harbor, Frayser's Farm and Malvern Hill, in the Peninsular campaign—after which he was disabled by sickness until October—the December battle of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, where he was slightly wounded in the leg by a piece of shell—Gettysburg, during the battle of the first and third days, participating in the charge under command of General Pettigrew; Falling Waters, at the passage of the Potomac, Mine Run, the first day of the Wilderness fight, the flank movement at Spottsylvania, May 10, 1864, and all the fighting there; the desperate fight at Cold Harbor, where he was severely wounded and disabled until the latter part of October, and the skirmishing along the line down to the Carolina boundary, until about Christmas, 1864. His last battle was Sailor's Creek, where he was captured with many others. As a prisoner of war he was held until about June 20, 1865, at Carroll prison, the Old Capitol prison and Johnson's island, Ohio. Returning to Northumberland county he remained there until February, 1890, engaged in farming and dealing in lumber and merchandise, and serving from 1879 until 1883 as superintendent of schools of the county. In 1890 he received an appointment as special officer in the census department and removed to Washington, where, since the expiration of the census service in 1893, he has been connected with the Washington national building and loan association. In 1871 Captain Broun was married to Bettie Lee Lawson, daughter of the late Octavius Lawson, of Lancaster county, Va., and they have two children, Cobrun Lee, and Bessie Fauntleroy.

Bedford Brown, M. D., was for many years prior to his death, in 1897, a distinguished physician of Alexandria, Va., and possessed a highly meritorious and honorable record of service in the line of his profession in the armies of the Confederate States. He was a native of North Carolina, born in Caswell county, January 1, 1823. In the leading institutions of that State he received his academic education and then entered upon the study of medicine at Lexington, Ky., under Dr. Benjamin Dudley, one of the most famous surgeons of that day. After four years' reading he entered the