Soldier:  Eban Brown

Regiment:  174^th. 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