Wilson Brown (c. 1841 – January 24, 1900) was a Union Navy sailor during the American Civil War and a recipient of America's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor.
[2] He was assigned as a landsman to the USS Hartford, the flagship of Rear Admiral David Farragut's West Gulf Blockading Squadron.
She had a sister Anna Young (22 Garden St) and an uncle Jackson Brisco (minister who officiated Lucinda Brown's funeral).
Lizzie had been married before per the pension record to Andrew Ramsey who was convicted of larceny and sentenced on October 13, 1883 to 5 years.
[3] Wilson Brown is one of eight African-Americans to receive the US Navy and Marine Medal of Honor during the Civil War.
Hartford during successful attacks against Fort Morgan, rebel gunboats and the ram CSS Tennessee (1863) in Mobile Bay on 5 August 1864.
Knocked unconscious into the hold of the ship when an enemy shellburst fatally wounded a man on the ladder above him, Brown, upon regaining consciousness, promptly returned to the shell whip on the berth deck and zealously continued to perform his duties although 4 of the 6 men at this station had been either killed or wounded by the enemy's terrific fire.