J. Thompson Brown, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJ. Thompson Brown
Confederate States Army officer,
Date of Birth: 06-Feb-1835
Place of Birth: Virginia, United States
Date of Death: 06-May-1864
Profession: military officer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About J. Thompson Brown
- John Thompson Brown (February 6, 1835 – May 6, 1864) was a Confederate States Army colonel and artillerist in the American Civil War.
- He participated in the first exchange of cannon fire, in fact the first shots fired, between a Confederate force and a Union force in Virginia during the Civil War.
- Brown's company of the Virginia (soon to be Confederate) Richmond Howitzers artillery regiment, with Brown in command according to some sources, and a Union force, the gunboat USS Yankee, had a minor engagement at the Battle of Gloucester Point, Virginia on May 7, 1861.
- Neither side suffered casualties.
- Brown is credited by some sources with firing the first shot of the Civil War in Virginia at that first, minor engagement in the state.
- During the war, he advanced from the rank of first lieutenant to the rank of colonel in charge of a division of artillery in the Army of Northern Virginia.
- He was killed by a sharpshooter at the Battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1864.
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