Talk:Alexander Brown (author)

more work needed
I did not add a link to Lost Cause because such was not mentioned in the resources I consulted, although his The Cabells and their Kin has such flavor, as do many Men of Mark entries of that Jim Crow era. I was only able to do a quick search of slaveholdings, given my other obligations, but suspect the grandfather's business traded in slaves as well as household goods in exchange for tobacco. Since local history sections are closed by Covid, and his book does not discuss his Confederate service, I tried to link him with a specific Confederate unit in order to add military rank/affiliation to the infobox. I could not find his service record, in part due to his common name. The NPS search engine has limitations and did not show him as or anyone with surnames before "C" affiliated with the Staunton Light Artillery that the cited online source mentions as his unit. The Staunton Light Artillery has no wikipedia article and the Virginia Regimental History Series is at the closed libraries. Ancestry.com searches disclose men of that age and name in the 16th, 34th and 45th Virginia infantry, but none of the units were in North Carolina late in the war, and many men of the same name and age fought with various artillery units.Jweaver28 (talk) 00:51, 19 February 2021 (UTC)