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"Brown's body was never recovered..."

Cdv of 100th New York Infantry Colonel James M. Brown, who was killed at the Battle of Seven Pines. Misidentified on the verso. No b/m, wear as shown in the photographs

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BROWN, JAMES M.—Age, 35 years. Enrolled, October 1, 1861, at Buffalo, New York to serve three years; mustered in as colonel, 100th New York Volunteer Infantry, January 10, 1862; died, May 31, 1862; prior service as captain, Co. B, Seventy-second Infantry. Commissioned colonel, February 7, 1862, with rank from January 10, 1862,

"Colonel James Malcolm Brown was an accomplished scholar and mastered in civil life two professions--those of medicine and law. He studied medicine at Glasgow and emigrated to the US in 1844 and settled in New Orleans. He was an assistant army surgeon during the Mexican war and for eighteen months tented with Lieut. Ulysses S. Grant. He was mustered out at Mackinac, Michigan. Admitted to the Michigan bar in 1851 he married Charlotte Cook of Argyle, NY in 1852. In 1853 he became a partner in a Chautauqua County law firm with Madison Burnell and John F. Smith. Commissioned as Captain of Company B, 72nd NYSV, he resigned that post on November 5, 1861 in order to accept the colonelcy of the 100th NYSV. Colonel Brown was killed at the Battle of Seven Pines when the 100th was enveloped by a Confederate division under General D.H. Hill. Brown's body was never recovered. GAR Post 285 in Jamestown was named in his honor. The Charlotte Brown Tent was named in her honor by the Daughters of Union Veterans. Widow Brown would come to the 100th Reunion encampment giving out CDVs of her late husband to keep his memory alive."