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Egbert Benson Brown (
October 4,
1816 –
February 11,
1902) was a
Union general in the
Trans-Mississippi Theater of the
American Civil War.
Early life and education
Egbert Brown was born in
Brownsville, New York, and as a young man sailed on a whaler before settling in
Toledo, Ohio, in the early 1840's. He was a respected grain dealer and built the first steam elevator in town. After successively working his way to Mayor of Toledo, he moved to
St. Louis, Missouri, in 1852 and engaged in the railroad business.
Civil War
In August 1861, Brown was commissioned as the
lieutenant colonel of the 7th Missouri Infantry. He resigned the commission in May 1862 to become a
brigadier general of the Missouri state
militia (Union), and was appointed a brigadier general of U.S. Volunteers to rank from
November 29,
1862.
Brown's command duties primarily involved suppressing
Confederate guerrillas and opposing raids from
Arkansas and the
Indian Territory. Among the high points of his career were two victories over
Joseph Shelby, at the
Second Battle of Springfield during Marmaduke's first raid, and at
Marshall, Missouri, during
Shelby's Great Raid of 1863. In the Springfield battle, Brown was severely wounded in the shoulder and lost the use of an arm. He received command of the District of Central Missouri during 1863 and through 1864.
Although successful in many engagements, Brown was condemned by some for lack of vigor. This came to a head during Sterling Price's 1864 raid of Missouri. At the
Battle of Westport, Union
Major General Alfred Pleasonton relieved Brown of command and arrested him for failure to promptly obey an order to attack. Brown assumed command of the District of Rolla in January 1865 until the end of the war.
Post-war
Brown was the United States pension agent in St. Louis from 1866 to 1868. He resigned to operate a farm in Illinois. He died in the home of a granddaughter at
West Plains, Missouri, on
February 11,
1902, and was buried next to his wife in
Cuba, Missouri.
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