Julius Calvin was a member of Company G, Infantry Brigade, Cobb's Legion, Georgia Vol. C.S.A.

James Wyatt was a member of the Third Regiment, Company D., Georgia Vol. Infantry, Madison Home Guards.

Thomas was a member of Comany 1, 44th Georgia Infantry, C.S.A.

In the late 1770's John became a Lieutenant in the militia regiment of his Mecklenburg County neighbor, Colonel Robert Irwin.

John's regiment went into action during the southern campaign of the Revolutionary War and it was there that he distinguished himself as a field officer. He was in the heaviest of fighting at the Battle of Hanging Rock where his brother-in-law, Samuel Craig, was killed. His brother, Dr. Robert Brown-field, was nearby as field surgeon with the General Hospital.

In a speech before Congress in 1798 General Thomas Sumter, field commander at Hanging Rock, illustrated the intensity of the battle by recalling:

Sumter's account was published August 19, 1828 in the New York Spectator (newspaper) and his acknowledged sources in piecing together details of the battle were Major Joseph McJunkin and Dr. Robert Brownfield, Surgeon to Sumter at that time..

It is assumed that John Brownfield was promoted to Captain as a direct result of the Hanging Rock action and that he held that rank through the remainder of the war. Several Revolutionary War veterans stated in their pension appli-cations that they served under Captain John Brownfield and one South Caro-linian listed him as Brevet Major John Brownfield.

Records of Wilkes County, Georgia indicate that on January 11, 1783, "peti-tions from Colonel Robert Irwin and Captain John Brownfield for lands on the Oconee River were received." Normally substantial grants were made to Revolutionary officers. Colonel Irwin died in North Carolina, but Captain Brownfield moved his family to Georgia to claim his new acreage.

Jane Rosborough, John's niece, could not remember her Uncle John because he died about the time she was born. The story of his death, however, was still vivid to her in 1873:

An inventory was taken of the possessions of John Brownfield, deceased, on March 10, 1786, in Wilkes County, Georgia. His wife, Sarah, was one of the administrators of the estate. The record indicates that he left "two bonds, land in North Carolina, and four slaves listed as Silvia, Peter, Harriet, and Chloe."

In 1794 Sarah and John Trammill, as administrators of John Brownfield, were recorded as getting permission to sell 300 acres on Clarke Creek in Wilkes County. In 1811 Benjamin Thurman was appointed administrator of the John Brownfield estate.

A twist of irony brought a large increase to the estate after John's death. Two tracts which he had applied for brought his heirs an additional 1,287 acres by 1788. In 1789 John Swepson of Greene County, Georgia, deeded the heirs of John Brownfield of Wilkes County (not individually named) 500 acres on Oconee River. No connection between Swepson and the Brownfields has been found.

Daniel Trammill was married to the widow, Sarah Brownfield, sometime prior to the Fall of 1814. How Daniel was related to the John Trammill, earlier mentioned as administrator, is not known. It is known, however, that Daniel was murdered in the Fall of 1814 by Benjamin Thurman, Sarah's son-in-law, and administrator of the John Brownfield estate. Thurman was hung for the murder in April of 1815 in Clarke County, Georgia.

No further information has been found on what happened to Polly Brownfield Thurman after this. Little is known about the other two daughters, Ann and Jane. It is believed that William and Ann Brownfield Shields lived in Morgan County, Georgia, and probably died there in the 1840's.