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Private, Co. "F", Regt. Ga. Volunteer Infantry,
Army of Tennessee, CSA
Paulding Washington Guards, Paulding Co.,GA
Enlisted March 4, 1862
Captured at Vicksburg,MS, July 4, 1863
Paroled July 6, 1863
Absent & Sick December 31, 1863.
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Never married.
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This letter, written by "Little Brown", was found by Thelma Clonts in the
Georgia State Archives;
"Resaca, Georgia
May 14, 1864
Dear Father and Mother:
I received your kind letter of the 8th of this instant and was glad to
hear from you. These lines leave me tolerable well as to health, but my legs
and feet is pestering now as bad as ever. I hope these lines may soon reach
you and find you enjoying good health. I have not got time to write much to
you at this time. It is busy times with us today. We have to draw rations
and cook and carry them to the company every night. These has been a continual
roar of cannon and small arms at this place for two days. I have not been to
the regiment since last night. I don't know whether any of the boys are hurt
or not. I will have to go to the regiment between now (and) morning. The
Yanks are shelling Calhoun today, and it may be a close race between us and
the Yanks to Atlanta. I think surely this fight will be the last hard fight
we will have. I believe that our folks will have to give some proposals of
peace before long, if we don't whip this fight. I do hope and pray with all
my heart that the time is close for these troublesome times to close, when the
wearied soldiers shall all be blessed with the privilege of returning home to
spend the balance of their days with their kindred and friends, never to be
called on to serve in as cruel a war as this, while life lasts.
May the Lord keep us all from harm and danger is my constant desire. I
remain as ever
your affectionate Son."
Thelma continues to say that
"The 1870 census for Paulding Co.,GA, Brownsville Post Office, dated,
September 8, 1870, shows that Absolom Brown was living with his father, Jacob,
80, and his mother, Elizabeth, 76. He eventually farmed on land next to his
father's, on Sweetwater Creek, that was considered a model farm at the time.
His youngest sister, Mary Ellen Clonts Tidwell, lived with him after she was
widowed, in 1865, until Tidwell lived with him after she was widowed in 1865
until she remarried and possible after she was widowed the second time in
1869. "Little Brown", so called to differentiate him from another relative
called, "Big Brown", (possibly John Dennis Brown Clonts or Lemuel Brown Meek,
son of Rachel Elizabeth Clonts and Lemuel Carter Meek) reared her son,
W.J.Tidwell,Jr., and possibly her daughter, Sally Taylor.
The widow of his nephew, Jacob Henry Clonts, the son of John Green Clonts,
also lived with "Little Brown" for at least a while and he helped to rear her
three daughters - Mano, Bessie & Kate. C.R. Clonts remembered this great uncle
with affection & that he limped due to war wounds."
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