Box 4273.002
Container
Contains 1 Collection or Record:
Joseph M. Brown Paper, circa 1892
Item — Box: 4273.002, Folder: 016
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a handwritten paper titled "The Kentucky Campaign as seen in 1862," read to the Grand Army of the Republic George W. Lennard post in New Castle, Indiana, probably during 1895, by Brown, a soldier in the 69th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment. This regiment had the dubious distinction of being captured en masse at the Battle of Richmond, Kentucky (August 30, 1862). Brown himself was wounded in the leg during the battle but managed to avoid capture by finding refuge...
Dates:
circa 1892