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Federal (USV)

Private

Henry Brown

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 23rd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 20, he enlisted as a Private in Elmira in Company F, 23rd New York Infantry on 6 May 1861.

On the Campaign

He was detached for service with Battery B, 4th United States Artillery and was with them when he was killed in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

References & notes

Service information from the State of New York.1. His role in the Battery at Antietam from Buell.2 He may be buried in Antietam National Cemetery as an "unknown", but is not specifically listed there.

Birth

c. 1841; Chemung County, NY

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, Issue 20 (for the year 1899) [AotW citation 10464]

2 Buell, Augustus, The Cannoneer: Recollections of Service in the Army of the Potomac, Washington: The National Tribune Company, 1890, pp. 18 - 20, 42 [AotW citation 10472]

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