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==Life==
Wilson Wright Brown was born December 25, 1837 in [[Logan County, Ohio]], and enlisted September 6, 1861 at Findlay, Ohio in Company F, [[21st Ohio Infantry]], mustering into service September 19, 1861. He first saw action at Ivy Mountain, Ky., November 8–9, 1861.
Chosen by [[
He was promoted to Sergeant, November 1, 1862. He later saw action at the [[Battle of Stones River]], December 31, 1862 - January 3, 1863, at [[Dug Gap, Georgia]], September 11, 1863 and was wounded at the [[Battle of Chickamauga]]. In 1863, Brown was awarded a Medal of Honor for his actions during the raid. He was discharged May 15, 1864.<ref name="birthdeathinfo"/><ref name="info">{{cite web | url = http://www.andrewsraid.com/brown.html | title = Private Wilson Wright Brown| publisher = andrewsraid.com | accessdate = 2012-02-13}}</ref>
He married Clarissa Lowman, July 12, 1863. In the years after the war, Wilson Brown remained friends with fellow raider [[Jacob Parrott]]. Edith Gertrude Brown, one of his eight children, subsequently married Jacob Parrott’s only son, John Marion Parrott.
Brown maintained a friendship with [[
In the 1950s Disney Studios released the movie [[The Great Locomotive Chase]] to herald the exploits of the Andrews Raid. He was portrayed by actor [[Stan Jones (songwriter)|
There is a Medal of Honor marker at Brown's grave. The nearby Ohio Historical marker, erected June 27, 1965, identifies him as Medal of Honor recipient.<ref name="military times">{{cite web | url = http://militarytimes.com/citations-medals-awards/recipient.php?recipientid=3408 | title = Valor Awards for Wilson W. Brown| publisher = [[Military Times]] | access-date = 2012-02-13}}</ref>
In 2012, his descendants went to court to settle a dispute over whether Brown's Medals of Honor should be donated to a museum.
| work = [[Toledo Blade]] | access-date = 2012-02-13}}</ref> As a result of the court settlement, the original 1863 medal was placed in a Veteran's Administration outpatient clinic in Toledo, Ohio.<ref>http://civil-war-picket.blogspot.com/2014/05/andrews-raid-soldiers-medals-of-honor.html</ref> The other medal, issued in 1904 when the medal was redesigned, was donated, along with Brown's papers, to the [[Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History]], Kennesaw, Ga., near the location where the raid began.
==Medal of Honor citation==
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