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• Birth	30 Sep 1842	No. Stonington,New London,Connecticut
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I40428	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	09 May 2005 00:00:00
  Father	Smith BROWN, b. 1809, No. Stonington,New London,Connecticut
  Mother	Rebecca MINOR, b. 1816, Stonington,New London,Connecticut
  Family ID	F15186	Group Sheet
  Family	Mary Maria BLIVEN, b. 20 Oct 1840, Westerly,Washington Co.,Rhode Island
  Married	26 Dec 1873	Tolland,Tolland Co.,Connecticut
  Family ID	F17846	Group Sheet

• Notes

  THE BROWN GENEALOGY, Vol. I., Boston, The Everett Press Company 1907, byCyrus Henry Brown, page 154. Both attend the St. Stephen's Protestant Episcopal Church. Mr, Brownwas educated in the public schools of his native town. He enlisted in theUnited States service in the Civil War, Sept. 16, 1862, in Co. G, 21stRegt. Conn. Vol. Infantry for three years; paticipated in the battles ofLittle Washington, Va., Nov. 13, 1862; Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13,1862; Siege of Suffolk, Va., April and May 1862; Drewry's Bluff, Va., May13016, 1864; Cold Harbor, Va., June 3, 1864; and White House Landing,Va., June 20, 1864. Was the first man to board the blockade-runner'Banshee' and run up the Union flag when she was captured by the UnitedStates transport 'Fulton'. During his service he was sick with typhoidfever, smallpox, and black measles, and was in no other hospital that thecamp hospital of his regiment. Was honorably discharged from the serviceJune 16, 1865, at New Haven, Conn. He was a charter member of BucklinPost No. 20 G. A. R. of E. Providence; has been employed by theProvidence Telephone Company about twenty-four years; is foreman of theTelephone linemen; member of the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers ofProvidence. Residence in 1905, Providence, RI.