New Hampshire, Civil War Service and Pension Records, 1861-1866
Name: Wilbur F Brown
Event Type: Military Service
Event Date: 27 May 1861
Event Place: Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States
Age: 18
Birth Year (Estimated): 1843
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According to the “Revised Register of the Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865” (1895): Wilber F. Brown (born in Epsom, NH) was an 18-year-old resident of Epsom when he enlisted on May 20, 1861 in 2nd Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers.
His photo appears in the regimental history “A History of the Second Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion” by Martin A. Haynes, Company I, (1896), page 172, and bears this caption: Enlisted from Epsom. Captured at Gettysburg,
July 2, 1863, and died in Andersonville prison, August 26, 1864. His grave is No. 6,871. Though but a boy, he was a marvelous shot with a rifle. He exhibited his skill when the regiment was at home by shooting a wild goose at Sugar Ball Eddy in Concord from a distance of nearly three hundred yards.
New Hampshire, Civil War Service and Pension Records, 1861-1866
Name: Wilbur F Brown
Event Type: Military Service
Event Date: 27 May 1861
Event Place: Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States
Age: 18
Birth Year (Estimated): 1843
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According to the “Revised Register of the Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865” (1895): Wilber F. Brown (born in Epsom, NH) was an 18-year-old resident of Epsom when he enlisted on May 20, 1861 in 2nd Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers.
His photo appears in the regimental history “A History of the Second Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion” by Martin A. Haynes, Company I, (1896), page 172, and bears this caption: Enlisted from Epsom. Captured at Gettysburg,
July 2, 1863, and died in Andersonville prison, August 26, 1864. His grave is No. 6,871. Though but a boy, he was a marvelous shot with a rifle. He exhibited his skill when the regiment was at home by shooting a wild goose at Sugar Ball Eddy in Concord from a distance of nearly three hundred yards.
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