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William H. Brown (c. 1836 – November 5, 1896) was a United States Navy sailor during the American Civil War and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor. Biography [ edit ]
John Lawson was born June 16, 1837. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.He enlisted the Navy in New York in December 1863. [1] On August 5, 1864, during the Battle of Mobile Bay, while serving in a member of USS Hartford's berth deck ammunition party, he was seriously wounded after a shell had wounded him in the leg and killed or wounded the rest of his crew.
Nearly 10,000 sailors of the Union Navy in the American Civil War were black, [21] [22] with seven of them being awarded the Medal of Honor. [ 23 ] Union sailors differed from their counterparts on land, soldiers.
Wilson Brown received his medal of honor on General Order #45 dated December 31, 1864. General Order #45 awarded the Medal of Honor to a total of 147 sailors, and marines. Of those 140 were Navy, 5 on the list were identified as African American, or of African Descent out of the 8 total known recipients for the Navy during the Civil War.
4 Civil War Cannon; "whether it was idle curiosity or absence of thought that caused Phil Schaller to fire one of the cannon to awaken the town on July 4, 1895, one will never know. The force of the cannon fire broke all the windows on the south side of the court house and many windows in the Main Street business district.