John A. Brown

From Logan Township, Blair County, he enlisted at Altoona on 3 August 1862 as a Private in Company D, 125th Pennsylvania Infantry and mustered-in in Harrisburg on 13 August.

He was killed by a gunshot through his chest in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

Service information from Bates1 with details from his mother's pension application. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

His widowed mother Mary (d. 1878) applied for a pension for John's service in November 1862 and at least twice again by April 1866. A pension was granted in November 1866 to date from the battle. She later applied again, on behalf of another son, James, who as killed at Cold Harbor, VA in 1864.

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD