Nathan W. Brown
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Nathan W. Brown was a career officer in the United States Army. A Union Army veteran of the American Civil War, Brown attained the rank of brigadier general. His service in the U.S. Army Pay Departmen
From the George L. Febiger Photograph Collection. U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center.
Jacob Brown (general)
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Jacob Jennings Brown was an American army officer who served in the War of 1812, where he reached the rank of general. His successes on the northern border during that war made him a national hero, an
Nathan W. Brown
…he served from 1880 until his retirement in 1882. Nathan Williams Brown was born in Brownville, New York on 15 January 1819, a son of Major General Jacob Brown and Pamelia (Williams) Brown. He was raised and educated in Brownville and his siblings included Pamela, the wife of Army officer David Hammond Vinton…
Portrait by John Wesley Jarvis, c. 1815