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H.W. Brown
(1816 - 1892)
Home State: New Jersey
Command Billet: Commanding Regiment
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 3rd New Jersey Infantry
see his Battle Report
Before Antietam
He mustered as Captain of Company A, 3rd NJ Infantry on 22 May 1861. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel of the regiment about a week later and to Colonel on 15 May 1862.
On the Campaign
He commanded the regiment in Maryland.
The rest of the War
He mustered out of the Regiment at the end of their 3-year term on 23 June 1864.
After the War
He apparently had at least 3 wives at one time, two of whom applied for pensions after his death.
References & notes
Birth
07/05/1816; Boston, MA
Death
10/25/1892; Beverly, MA; burial in Central Cemetery, Beverly, MA
1 State of New Jersey, Adjutant-General's Office, and William Scudder Stryker, Adjutant General, Record of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War, 1861-1865, 2 volumes, Trenton: John L. Murphy, Steam Book and Job Printer, 1876, pp. 150, 152 [AotW citation 29433]