| Birth: | Dec. 25, 1839 | | Death: | Dec. 26, 1916
Toledo
Ohio, USA | 
Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He was a Private with Company F, 21st Ohio Volunteer Infantry and was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism at Big Shanty, Georgia. His official CMOH citation reads as follows "One of the 19 of 22 men (including 2 civilians) who, by direction of Gen. Mitchell (or Buell), penetrated nearly 200 miles south into enemy territory and captured a railroad train at Big Shanty, Ga., in an attempt to destroy the bridges and track between Chattanooga and Atlanta".
Cause of death: Cerebral hemorrhage
Search Amazon for Wilson Brown | | | Burial:
New Belleville Ridge Cemetery
Dowling
Wood County
Ohio, USA
Plot: Sec. B, Lot 46, Row 1 |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Record added: Jan 21, 2001
Find A Grave Memorial# 19680 |
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