Image shows a young soldier seated in a high-backed chair. He wears a dark forage cap and frock coat with light trousers. The frock coat is buttoned and has a slant pocket at the lower left front.

Image has great clarity and wonderful contrast and is very clean. Bottom of mount is signed in light period pencil “ABIEL B. BROWN.”

Reverse has another period pencil inscription that reads “ABIEL B. BROWN / LOUDON RIDGE / N. H.”  There is also a photographer’s imprint for C. L. HOWE… BRATTLEBORO. There is also some collector’s information in pencil.

Abiel B. Brown was born in Canterbury, New Hampshire and was one of ten children. He enlisted as a Private in Company F, 12^th New Hampshire Infantry on September 5, 1862 with his brother True Brown. Abiel was 19 years old at the time of his enlistment.

The 12th was assigned to the 3rd Corps of the Army of the Potomac where it saw its first action at Fredericksburg.

The regiment suffered heavily at Chancellorsville with Brown being slightly wounded on May 3, 1863.

At Gettysburg the regiment defended the area around the Klingle farm along the Emmitsburg Road suffering 17 killed, 68 wounded, 3 captured and 18 missing.

In December of 1863 the 12th New Hampshire was transferred to the 18th Corps and saw action at Williamsburg, Swift Creek, Drewry’s Bluff, Fort Stevens, Cold Harbor and Petersburg. An entry in the 12^th’s regimental history about Brown says that he “was in most of the engagements of the regiment” and that “He was a good and faithful soldier, and served until the fall of the Southern Confederacy.”

Brown was discharged on May 8, 1865.

After the war he lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he worked as an engineer on the Western Division of the Pennsylvania railroad.  [ad]

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