S/o of Solomon Brandenburg (1803-1881) and Harriett Dawson (1803-1840), they were married on 07 Jul 1825 in Meade county, Kentucky.
BRANDENBURG DAVID DAWSON
PVT 6 KY INF
David D. Brandenburg was born on March 20, 1831, in Woodford County, Kentucky. The second child of Solomon and Harriet Dawson Brandenburg, he was the great nephew of the War of 1812 Captain Solomon Brandenburg for whom the county seat of Meade County, Kentucky was named. When the War for Southern Independence began, David traveled to Cave City, Kentucky to join the Confederate army. This was no teen-age boy caught up in the romantic notions of war and all its glory. David was a thirty year old man with a wife and two children when he enlisted in Company D of the Sixth Kentucky Infantry on October 7, 1861. The muster rolls of the Sixth Kentucky report that he was enlisted for one year by Lieutenant Bowls and stood five feet, eleven inches tall. He participated in a night attack on Federal pickets near Chattanooga in November 1863. He also fought in the battles at Shiloh, Vicksburg, Baton Rouge, Stones River, Jackson, Chickamauga, Resaca, from Dallas to Atlanta, and both days at Jonesboro. Private Brandenburg was taken prisoner by William Tecumseh Sherman's army at Jonesboro on September 1, 1864. David married Elizabeth Allen of Woodford County. She was the daughter of Lewis and Lucy Dawson Allen.
Source: http://www.rootsweb.com/~orphanhm/brandenburg.htm
BRANDENBURG DAVID DAWSON
PVT 6 KY INF
David D. Brandenburg was born on March 20, 1831, in Woodford County, Kentucky. The second child of Solomon and Harriet Dawson Brandenburg, he was the great nephew of the War of 1812 Captain Solomon Brandenburg for whom the county seat of Meade County, Kentucky was named. When the War for Southern Independence began, David traveled to Cave City, Kentucky to join the Confederate army. This was no teen-age boy caught up in the romantic notions of war and all its glory. David was a thirty year old man with a wife and two children when he enlisted in Company D of the Sixth Kentucky Infantry on October 7, 1861. The muster rolls of the Sixth Kentucky report that he was enlisted for one year by Lieutenant Bowls and stood five feet, eleven inches tall. He participated in a night attack on Federal pickets near Chattanooga in November 1863. He also fought in the battles at Shiloh, Vicksburg, Baton Rouge, Stones River, Jackson, Chickamauga, Resaca, from Dallas to Atlanta, and both days at Jonesboro. Private Brandenburg was taken prisoner by William Tecumseh Sherman's army at Jonesboro on September 1, 1864. David married Elizabeth Allen of Woodford County. She was the daughter of Lewis and Lucy Dawson Allen.
Source: http://www.rootsweb.com/~orphanhm/brandenburg.htm
S/o of Solomon Brandenburg (1803-1881) and Harriett Dawson (1803-1840), they were married on 07 Jul 1825 in Meade county, Kentucky.
BRANDENBURG DAVID DAWSON
PVT 6 KY INF
David D. Brandenburg was born on March 20, 1831, in Woodford County, Kentucky. The second child of Solomon and Harriet Dawson Brandenburg, he was the great nephew of the War of 1812 Captain Solomon Brandenburg for whom the county seat of Meade County, Kentucky was named. When the War for Southern Independence began, David traveled to Cave City, Kentucky to join the Confederate army. This was no teen-age boy caught up in the romantic notions of war and all its glory. David was a thirty year old man with a wife and two children when he enlisted in Company D of the Sixth Kentucky Infantry on October 7, 1861. The muster rolls of the Sixth Kentucky report that he was enlisted for one year by Lieutenant Bowls and stood five feet, eleven inches tall. He participated in a night attack on Federal pickets near Chattanooga in November 1863. He also fought in the battles at Shiloh, Vicksburg, Baton Rouge, Stones River, Jackson, Chickamauga, Resaca, from Dallas to Atlanta, and both days at Jonesboro. Private Brandenburg was taken prisoner by William Tecumseh Sherman's army at Jonesboro on September 1, 1864. David married Elizabeth Allen of Woodford County. She was the daughter of Lewis and Lucy Dawson Allen.
Source: http://www.rootsweb.com/~orphanhm/brandenburg.htm
BRANDENBURG DAVID DAWSON
PVT 6 KY INF
David D. Brandenburg was born on March 20, 1831, in Woodford County, Kentucky. The second child of Solomon and Harriet Dawson Brandenburg, he was the great nephew of the War of 1812 Captain Solomon Brandenburg for whom the county seat of Meade County, Kentucky was named. When the War for Southern Independence began, David traveled to Cave City, Kentucky to join the Confederate army. This was no teen-age boy caught up in the romantic notions of war and all its glory. David was a thirty year old man with a wife and two children when he enlisted in Company D of the Sixth Kentucky Infantry on October 7, 1861. The muster rolls of the Sixth Kentucky report that he was enlisted for one year by Lieutenant Bowls and stood five feet, eleven inches tall. He participated in a night attack on Federal pickets near Chattanooga in November 1863. He also fought in the battles at Shiloh, Vicksburg, Baton Rouge, Stones River, Jackson, Chickamauga, Resaca, from Dallas to Atlanta, and both days at Jonesboro. Private Brandenburg was taken prisoner by William Tecumseh Sherman's army at Jonesboro on September 1, 1864. David married Elizabeth Allen of Woodford County. She was the daughter of Lewis and Lucy Dawson Allen.
Source: http://www.rootsweb.com/~orphanhm/brandenburg.htm
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