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Federal (USV)

Private

Francis A. Brown

(c. 1839 - 1867)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Hartford, he enrolled as a Private in Company B, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 11 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and captured.

The rest of the War

He was paroled on 28 September. He was transferred to the 41st Company, 2nd Battalion, Veteran Reserve Corps 8 August 1863 and promoted to Corporal on 1 January 1865. He was discharged on 10 August 1865.

After the War

He died relatively young, age 28, in 1867.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1839

Death

10/17/1867; burial in Spring Grove Cemetery, Hartford, CT

Notes

1 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, pg. 622 [AotW citation 27071]

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