Brent, not to worry. It is not possible to make these waters any muddier than they were to start with. What little info I have about this man was passed along to me by a distant relation. She obtained it from a letter written by an ancestor of hers in another brigade. The letter, written weeks afterward, stated: "Our Brown cousin (Capt.) in Rennilds brigade was killed in the fighting of July 20th." The writer was informed his cousin was killed inside the enemy's breastworks, felled by a blow to the head from a clubbed musket.

And that is the sum total of what is known about this man. My guess is, considering Reynolds' brigade was cut down by nearly half during the Georgia Campaign, that this mysterious soldier was serving as an acting captain, and may well have started off the campaign as a Lt., Sgt., or even Corporal. Even still, I have yet to find reference to anyone in Reynolds' Brigade named Brown, who was killed at Peach Tree Creek.