Tag Archives: Weld

Charlie Brown wore blue, gray, and then blue once too often

In another era he might be considered a swashbuckler, but playing Yankee and Johnny Reb left Maine’s Charles Webster Brown — a.k.a. Alfonso C. Webster — hanging and dead. Writing in the April 2003 Civil War Times, author and Civil War historian Robert L. Willett skillfully wove the tale of Brown/Webster, who hailed from Weld […]