From CW Sailors:
Isaac N. Brown, born Livingston County, Kentucky, appointed from Mississippi; previous service in the United States Navy, May 15, 1834; served in the Seminole, and Mexican wars; executive officer of the USS Niagara, just prior to the Civil War; name stricken from the rolls of the United States Navy, April 28, 1861; entered the service of the Confederate States Navy, June 6, 1861, as lieutenant; served on the Richmond station, 1861; assigned duties on the Mississippi River, and in the defense of New Orleans, 1861 - 1862; when that city fell in April, 1862, he was sent to Vicksburg, and assumed command of the CSS Arkansas, Jackson Station, 1862; involved in the action of July 15, 1862, when the Arkansas took passage from the Yazoo River, through the combined Union fleet above Vicksburg; promoted commander, August 25, 1862; involved in work on the gunboats on the Yazoo River, 1862; appointed in the Provisional Navy, to rank from May 13, 1863; assigned, by Special Order No. 92, dated at Canton, Mississippi, June 1, 1863, to the command of the heavy artillery at Yazoo City, and the boats on the Yazoo River; later commanded the CSS Charleston, at Charleston, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864; ordered to report to Confederate Army lieutenant general Hardee, at Charleston, for special duty, November, 1864; after the fall of Charleston, he was sent to command the Naval forces west of the Mississippi River, but before reaching this command, the war had ended; paroled at Montgomery, Alabama, on May 22, 1865; at the time of his parole, his personal details were shown as grey eyes, light hair, fair complexion and standing 5 feet 10 inches tall; resided, after the war, in Mississippi, and later at Corsicana, Texas. [Scharf 306n; Register1863; ORN 1, 15, 697 & 732; 1, 19, 69; 1, 23, 711 and 2, 1, 318, 320 & 321; ORA 1, 24 and 1, 35 (part 2), 648; JCC 4, 121; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated May 31, 1861; Charleston Courier dated Thursday, July 31, 1862; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RL - Paroles, A-W, page 22.]
J. Brown, Coal Heaver, CSS Albemarle, and Halifax Station, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 274.]
U.S. Navy Register:
Brown, Isaac N.
Midshipman, 15 March, 1834. Passed Midshipman, 6 July, 1840. Master, 15 August, 1846. Lieutenant, 31 October, 1846. Dismissed 25 April, 1861.
C.S. Navy Register:
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Gaylon Neil Beasley's
True Tales of Tipton County, Tennessee puts him in that county, north of Memphis, as a teenager at the time of the construction of the county's first permanent courthouse (1830s?).