Brouse was commissioned as a Captain of Company K, 100th Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry on September 24, 1862, and was discharged due to disability on January 16, 1865.

[1] He received the Medal of Honor on May 16, 1899, for his actions at the Battle of Missionary Ridge, Tennessee, on November 25, 1863.

He died from heart disease at his home in Indianapolis on October 26, 1904, and was buried at Crown Hill Cemetery.

[2] Brouse was on detached duty at the beginning of the battle but opted to take part anyway.

[3] Citation: To encourage his men whom he had ordered to lie down while under severe fire, and who were partially protected by slight earthworks, himself refused to lie down, but walked along the top of the works until he fell severely wounded.