CABINET CARD PHOTO OF CAPT. AUGUSTUS C. BROWN, 4TH N.Y.H.A.

CABINET CARD PHOTO OF CAPT. AUGUSTUS C. BROWN, 4TH N.Y.H.A.

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Item Code: 2023-679

This is a 4” x 5.5” photograph on a 6” x 8” mount. Chest-up photograph of Captain Augustus C. Brown in uniform. He wears a single-breasted frock with captain’s shoulder boards visible. Image is clear with good contrast. “W. Kurtz” in written in fine pencil under the right corner of the image and is likely the photographer.

There is no printed photographer’s backmark. A period pencil identification is on the back along with a later history also written in pencil.

Comes with a mailing envelope in which the photo was once mailed.

Augustus Brown was 24 years old when he enlisted on 6/21/1863 at Rochester, NY as a 1st Lieutenant in Battery “D” of the 4th New York Heavy Artillery. He was promoted to Captain on 12/23/1863 and discharged on 12/5/1864.

The 4th New York Heavy Artillery was initially sent into the defenses of Washington DC. As General Grant pushed through Virginia in 1864, the various Batteries were reassigned to the Army of the Potomac and fought in all the major battles of that campaign.  [jet] [ph:L]

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