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Photo # NH 105363:  Medal of Honor awarded to Landsman Wilson Brown, 1864

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Landsman Wilson Brown, USN, (1841-1900)

Wilson Brown was born in 1841 in Natchez, Mississippi. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy from that state and served as a Landsman on board USS Hartford during the United States Civil War. On 5 August 1864, during the Battle of Mobile Bay, Alabama, Brown "zealously" performed his duties despite intense enemy shell fire that killed and wounded most of those around him. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his conduct in that action. Wilson Brown died on 24 January 1900 and is buried in the National Cemetery at Natchez, Mississippi.

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Photo #: NH 105363

U.S. Navy Medal of Honor


Reverse of a Medal of Honor awarded to Landsman Wilson Brown, USN, for actions on board USS Hartford during the Battle of Mobile Bay, Alabama, 5 August 1864.

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U.S. Navy Medal of Honor citation of Landsman Wilson Brown, USN (as printed in the official publication "Medal of Honor, 1861-1949, The Navy", page 17):

"On board the flagship U.S.S. Hartford during successful attacks against Fort Morgan, rebel gunboats and the ram Tennessee in Mobile Bay on 5 August 1864. Knocked unconsious into the hold of the ship when an enemy shellburst fatally wounded a man on the ladder above him, BROWN, upon regaining consciousness, promptly returned to the shell whip on the berth deck and zealously continued to perform his duties although 4 of the 6 men at his station had been either killed or wounded by the enemy's terrific fire."


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