From the July 13, 2012, Corsicana (Tx) Daily Sun "Saturday ceremony to honor Confederate officer."
Isaac Newton Brown, a career U.S. Navy sailor and later a Confederate naval officer, is buried at Corsicana's Oakwood Cemetery.
On Saturday, July 14th, the Sons of Confederate veterans, Order of Confederate Grays and United Daughters of the Confederacy gathered to honor his memory and the and 150th anniversary of his victorious fight with the Union Navy at Vicksburg.
Union Admiral Farragut almost took Vicksburg a year before General Grant did. Lieutenant Brown commanded the powerful ironclad CSS Arkansas. Earlier, he had been od\rdered to finish the ship on the banks of the Yazoo River.
Still unfinished, on July 15, 1862, Lt. Brown took a makeshift crew and no trial run, to the Mississippi River and fought off 30 Union ships to get through to Vicksburg. Farragut's inability to defeat the Arkansas caused him to withdraw July 24th.
As a result, Brown was promoted to commander and later received the Confederate Medal of Honor. Later, he commanded the ironclad CSS Charleston.
After the war, Isaac Brown came to Corsicana when his stepson moved there. He remained in town until his death September 1, 1889.
A Confederate Hero. --Old B-Runner
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