Brown maintained a friendship with Captain William A. Fuller, the General’s engineer, and traveled with other raiders to Atlanta for reunions, on railroad passes issued by the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway, successor to the Western & Atlantic.

In the 1950s Disney Studios released the movie The Great Locomotive Chase to herald the exploits of the Andrews Raid.

The nearby Ohio Historical marker, erected June 27, 1965, identifies him as Medal of Honor recipient.

[10] As a result of the court settlement, the original 1863 medal was placed in a Veteran's Administration outpatient clinic in Toledo, Ohio.

The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Private Wilson W. Brown, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in April 1862, while serving with Company G, 21st Ohio Infantry, in action during the Andrew's Raid in Georgia.

Private Brown was one of the 19 of 22 men (including two civilians) who, by direction of General Mitchell (or Buell), penetrated nearly 200 miles south into enemy territory and captured a railroad train at Big Shanty, Georgia, in an attempt to destroy the bridges and track between Chattanooga and Atlanta.