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S. Brown
(1836 - 1862)
Home State: Connecticut
Education: Bowdoin College, Class of 1858
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
Then a schoolteacher in Ellington, he was commissioned Captain in the 16th Infantry on 1 August 1862. He was in command of Company D.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
Originally buried on the battlefield, his family had his body brought back to Connecticut for burial there.
References & notes
Basic information from Ingersoll1, with burial and other details, along with the photo used here, from John Banks. He credits the George Whitney Collection/Connecticut State Library on the original CDV.
Birth
02/16/1836; Danvers, CT
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Monumental Cemetery, Peabody, MA
1 Ingersoll, Colin Macrae, Adjutant-General, Catalogue of Connecticut Volunteer Organizations in the Service of the United States, 1861-1865, Hartford: Brown & Gross, 1869, pp. 647 - 663 [AotW citation 5510]