Lancaster preacher was chaplain of York's Civil War Army Hospital

(Cannonball) The Rev. James Allen Brown, one of eight children of Quaker parents from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, served as the chaplain of the military hospital for most of the war, serving from 1862 until 1864. His was a massive chore, as the facilities housed more than 14,000 different patients during the war, with the majority there during Brown's tenure as chaplain. Perhaps as many as 200 patients died; Reverend Brown officiated at many of the funerals for those fatalities who were buried in York's Prospect Hill Cemetery. Continued