[no picture yet]

Federal (USV)

Private

Henry S. Brown

(c. 1838 - 1863)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

Son of a Scotlish-born furnace manager, in 1860 he was a 22 year old laborer living with his father and 4 younger siblings at Indiana Furnace in Vermillion County, IN. He enlisted and mustered in Terra Haute, IN on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company I, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the hand in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was promoted Corporal, date not given, and was killed in action at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863.

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson.1 His service from the Adjutant General.2 Personal details from the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1838 in MD

Death

07/02/1863; Gettysburg, PA; burial in Gettysburg National Cemetery, Gettysburg, PA

Notes

1 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 144 [AotW citation 16912]

2 State of Indiana, Adjutant General's Office, and William H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 8 volumes, Indianapolis: (various) State Printers, 1865-1869, Vol. 4, p. 287 [AotW citation 33626]

« Search for another Person