Soldier: Eban Brown
Regiment: 174th. OVI
Company: A
Age: 27
Date Entering Service: 7/23/1864
Period of Service: 11 months 5 days
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Appointed sergeant 8/18/1864, reduced to ranks on 10/11/1864, mustered out with Company at Charlotte, North Carolina on 6/28/1865
Battles in which he fought:
Battle of Overall’s Creek, Tennessee 12/4/1864
Battle of the Cedars, Tennessee 12/5/1864
Battle of Wyse Fork, North Carolina 3/7/1865
Other interesting information discovered:
Eban Brown was born in the year 1837. Census records also list him as Ebenezer Brown. Census records reveal he was married and had at least three children. He was employed as a laborer and at one time he was a fireman for the Rail Road. Eban collected an invalid’s pension on 9/1/1883.
Date of Death: 1923 Place of burial: Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, Ca.
Adopted By: Charlie and Christine Long Researcher: Velda L Montgomery