Napoleon Bonaparte Brown (1834 – March 18, 1910) was an American businessman and politician who lived in Kansas and Missouri in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Major Brown served in "B" Company[5] until he resigned on January 17, 1865[6]—the very day the 101st crossed into South Carolina from Georgia under General William Tecumseh Sherman.

[8] In a letter to the editor of the Kansas Blade (now the Concordia Blade-Empire), Brown claimed that he enlisted as a private on April 22, 1862, and was subsequently promoted to captain, major, and brevet lieutenant colonel.

[13] Colonel Brown served as a Republican first in the Missouri House of Representatives,[14] and then in the Kansas State Senate.

[16] As a state Senator in Kansas, Brown fought a losing battle to restore Concordia Normal School as a state-run institution.