Death of Col. Brown
We are deeply pained to be called upon to announce the death of Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph R. Brown, of the Fourteenth Kentucky Regiment, U. S. Volunteers, which took place yesterday morning at the Phoenix Hotel in this city.
Col. Brown was one of the first to step forward and enroll his name among the volunteers who were invited to enlist in the service of the Government, when Kentucky was invaded by rebel armies, and has been in active service ever since. He participated with distinguished gallantry in the battles of Piketon and Middle Creek, in Eastern Kentucky, and he had left a name that will be as enduring as time, for the faithful performance of the highest duties which devolved upon him in the position of patriot soldier which he assumed at the call of his country.
Although suffering with camp fever when his regiment (commanded by our gallant fellow townsman, Col. J. C. Cochran,) was ordered from Catlettsburg to Cumberland Ford, his chivalrous spirit could not bear the idea of remaining behind, and he left with it to share in its dangers and its triumphs. When he reached Lexington he was too ill to proceed further; and although for weeks he has received all the care and attention which kindness and skill could bestow, disease had so fastened itself upon him that it resisted all efforts to eradicate it, and he, calmly and quietly, yielded up his noble spirit into the hands of his creator.
Col. Brown was a citizen of Greenup county, Ky., where he leaves a wife and seven children His death will fall with terrible force not only upon his bereathed family, but upon a large number of sorrowing friends. But they have the consolation of knowing that he died at the post of duty, and in the faithful discharge of the obligations he assumed when he entered the military service of his country.
His funeral will take place this morning at 10'oclock from the Phoenix Hotel.
Source: Lexington Herald, May 10, 1862
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