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From: Michael Hargreave Mawson <>
Subject: Re: WILLIAM BROWN
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 15:06:44 +0100
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In-Reply-To: <00ae01c278b4$cc910e20$2e279618@hala1.on.cogeco.ca>

On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, at around 23:49:03 local time, Nelson Denton
<> wrote:
>This person is looking for a WILLIAM BROWN late of the 93 Highlanders.
>
>
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>Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 9:23 PM
>Subject: crimean war
>
>
>> thank you for your reply. my g grandfather's name was william brown and
>> from what i can find, he was with the 93rd highlanders, but he was
>> English, from Wiltshire, born 7Aug1827. I have had a very hard time
>> trying to reseach this myself, but the more I read about this war the
>> mroe involved I seem to get. My ggrandfather came to America after the
>> Crimean and joined the 64th north carolina confederate reg. in the Civil
>> War. That is very unusual and he sounds like a man that was either
>> crazy or quite a hero!

I don't know quite what information is being sought, but large numbers
of British soldiers, discharged after the Crimean War, went to America,
and many of them subsequently served in the American Civil War. Not
unusual at all.

ATB
--
Mike
Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea"
http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html

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