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Federal (USV)

Private

Winslow Brown

(1844 - 1908)

Home State: Michigan

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Michigan Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 15 year old living with his father and grandfather, both cabinet makers, along with siblings and cousins, in Mendon Village, St Joseph County, MI. He enlisted there on 7 August 1861, giving his age as 18, and mustered as a Private in Company I, Seventh Michigan Infantry on 22 August.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company in Maryland to 10 September, then thought to be a deserter.

The rest of the War

He transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps on 8 August 1863.

After the War

By 1870 he was a carpenter living with his in-laws in Mendon. At the 1890 US Veteran's Census he was in Muskegon, MI.

References & notes

His service basics from the State of Michigan.1 His presence on the Campaign from a November 1862 letter home by Lieutenant Samuel C Hodgman. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Laura Root (1846-1902) in October 1868 and they probably had a son.

Birth

03/17/1844; Mendon, MI

Death

06/29/1908; Spokane, WA; burial in Fairmount Memorial Park, Spokane, WA

Notes

1 State of Michigan, Office of the Adjutant General, and George H. Brown, Adjutant General; George H. Turner, Asst. AG, compiler, Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865, 46 volumes, Kalamazoo: Ihling Bros. & Everard, 1904-1915, Vol. 7, p. 19 [AotW citation 31456]

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