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Federal (USV)

Private

Adam Brown

(c. 1838 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 130th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 22 year old laborer on Franklin Loucks' farm at West Manchester in York County, PA. He mustered into service in Company K, 130th Pennsylvania Infantry on 9 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and died in a field hospital nearby the same day. Private Edward Spangler later remembered:

The house, barn, and adjacent lawns were covered with wounded. One of my Company, Adam Brown, I found shot through the abdomen. As mortification supervened, his body turned green, and he implored me to put an end to his agony. He died shortly thereafter.

The rest of the War

He was originally buried on the field and reinterred in the new National Cememtery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 with his service from Bates.2 The quote here from Spangler's War Experience.3 Personal details from the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1838 in PA

Death

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

Notes

1 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 3254]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 27938]

3 Spangler, Edward W., My Little War Experience with Historical Sketches and Memorabilia, York (Pa): York Daily Publishing Company, 1904, pg. 39 [AotW citation 27939]

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