Soldier:  Gilbert McFarland Brown

Regiment:  174^th. OVI                           

Company:  A

Age: 18            

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):

Mustered out with Company 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:

Gilbert McFarland Brown was born on 8/13/1846 in Morrow County, Ohio. He married Emaline Alspar in Morrow County 10/27/1867, eight children were born of this union.  Gilbert and his family remained in the Cardington, Ohio are where he was employed as a painter. Gilbert collected an invalid’s pension on 5/18/1889. His wife, Emaline collected a widow’s pension on 12/9/1898.

Date of Death:  6/23/1898                                 Place of burial:  Glendale Cemetery, Cardington, Ohio

Adopted By:  The Village of Cardington                          Researcher: Velda L Montgomery