Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-11-28
For the Standard.


iment N. C. Troops.
Mr.. EDITOR THAT the name and character of
our worthy dead may be preserved to surviving
friends and transmitted an heritage to those who
shall come after, please g'e space in your paper for
the following brief sketcn Of the accomplished and
lanented Capt. W. CALEB BRowS Of the l4th Regi-
ment n. c. Troops.
The subject of this sketch was born in Dayton
Ohio, March LIST, 1882, but at the age Of ten years
came with his father to North Carolina, of which
State he remained citizen up to the time Of his
death In his earlier years he received extensive
and substantial education, fully qualifying him for
an honorable position in any business to which he
might have directed his attention.
In 1851 he went to California, but returned in
1855, and in 1857 entered the law office of the Hon.
Orable, now Governor q. b. Vance, in the town of
Ashcve, Buncombe County, n. q.
His industry and application to study were all
that his friends could desire, and he soon became
the much esteemed business partner and friend Of
Mr.. Vance. He continued the practice of law in
connection with Mr.. Vance until the breaking out
Of the war IN 1861 As lawyer and business man
he was accurate, energetic, and persevering while
scrupuOus honesty and sterling integrity were ex.
emplihed in every transaction, and conseou ence
the confidence and esteem Of all were secured and
strengthened by an intimate acquaintance. Ills
political principles strongly conservative and
he sterny resisted the fanaticsm North and South,
which he believed would result in its practical
workings, in the disruption of the heaven born gov.
eminent Of his fathers
But Mr. Brown, like, perhaps, four-fifths of his
fellow. citizens Of the State who, although utterly
opposed to TIE doctrine of secession after the pro.
claation Of Lincoln calling on North Carolina for
troops TO compel the cotton States to honor and
obey the Constitution, while laws subverSive Of and
dShonoring that sacred compact stood in full force
on the statute books of the Northern States
refused to obey that proclamation, and, with his
brother Samuel was one OF the original number who
- i. A..
second volunteer company organized in the County
Of Buncombe, of which Hon. q b. Vance vas chosen
Captain. This company, with others, constituted
what was at first the 4th, and afterward the l4th
Regiment N @. Volunteers.
Mr.. Brown soon the confidence and esteem
of his Colonel and held various positions of honor
and responsibility in his reg ment lie acted as Aid
to his Colonel in tho battle of Seven PineS-was the
regular Quartermaster Of the Regiment and, at one
time, Of the brigade to which his regiment was at
tached-aud at the time of his demise held the two
fold office Of Pay and Quartermaster Of his regiment
In all these important positions he exhibited those
traits of character industry, accuracy, honesty, e.
deity and punctuality essential to business man
while his gentlemany manners and department rem
dered him agreeable, and secured the esteem of ALL
Capt Browns moral character, so far as known
by the writer, was rreproachable-abo suspicion.
AS an illustration of the noble and generous i'm
pulses of his nature and the susceptibility of his
friendship i'll reply to letter of sympathy touch
ing the death of his brother Lieut. Samuel Brown,
who had died n few months before in the camp, in
which he had been pointed to the Scrptural
of consolation, he wrote in May, to the author of
this sketch, You have my most sincere thanks for
your very kind sympathy as expressed in your let
ter. Such letters never be received by soldier,
who has any feeling, without doing good, and ma
king him feel that he has friends still left be-
hind worth fighting and struggling for, and must
nerve him to renewed exerton III the hour of trial"
His health was much impaired by the climate Of
the Peninsula, exposure and overvork III the faith
full discharge Of the duties of his Offices and
worn down 10y work and disease on the ODD of June,
he retired to a private house in Richmond hoping
that quietude rest and kind nursing, in the Prov
lence Of God, would soon restore his wasted ener-
gies But his disease soon developed case of ty-
phod fever which bafflcd the skill of physicians
and, notwithstanding the kindeSt nursing, termiua.
ted his mortal life.
Soon after his confinement, he expressed to Mrs.
Taylor his kind hostess nurse, friend, and spirit
ual adviser, anxiety about his 0fcia Reports,
&C., and his first care was to put every thing in
exact order; and when all arranged to his sat-
isfaction he remarked-"Now | can rest" From
this time the interests of his soul were his all-ab-
sorbing concern.
a few days after his sickness began, he said to
Mrs. Taylor" You have been very kind and done
much for me, butI want to ask you to do something
more-ainister to the wants of my soal. feel very
/ anxious and troubled about tn His nurse says,
'during his illness he thought of his past life, of his
motksr's prayers. and the holy influence of home,
&c, all of which he told me- and seemed heartily to
! repent Of many things left undone that he felt he