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  • Francis E. Brownell
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  • Francis Edwin Brownell (1840 – March 15, 1894) was a soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor for killing James W. Jackson, after he shot Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth, colonel of the 11th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Brownell's actions marked the first action in the American Civil War to merit the award.
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  • 11
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serviceyears
  • --04-20
Birth Date
  • 1840
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death place
Name
  • Francis E. Brownell
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  • Francis E. Brownell
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  • Place of burial
Birth Place
  • Troy, New York
Awards
death date
  • --03-15
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Battles
placeofburial
  • Bellefontaine Cemetery
  • Saint Louis, Missouri
abstract
  • Francis Edwin Brownell (1840 – March 15, 1894) was a soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor for killing James W. Jackson, after he shot Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth, colonel of the 11th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Brownell's actions marked the first action in the American Civil War to merit the award.