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About Isaac Brown
- Isaac Newton Brown (May 27, 1817 – September 1, 1889) was a naval officer in both the United States Navy and the Confederate States Navy.
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- Brown was born in Caldwell County, Kentucky, but spent part of his later youth in western Tennessee.
- In March 1834, shortly after his father died, he joined the United States Navy as a midshipman.
- He received a commission as a lieutenant in 1846 and later participated in the Mexican–American War.
- He married, owned property on the Mississippi Delta, and had three sons.
- He remained in the Navy and made several trips around the world on various ships. Shortly after the outbreak of the Civil War in April 1861, he resigned his commission.
- In June, he accepted a commission as a lieutenant in the fledgling Confederate States Navy.
- Brown was assigned to the Mississippi River region by the Confederate Naval Department.
- In May 1862 he was ordered to Yazoo City, Mississippi, to take command of the unfinished ironclad CSS Arkansas and complete her construction in the worst of conditions.
- After successfully accomplishing this difficult task, Brown commanded her dramatic breaking of the Federal naval blockade of Vicksburg, Mississippi, on July 15, 1862. Brown was promoted to commander in August 1862 in recognition of his bold and audacious actions at Vicksburg.
- Commander Brown served as captain of the ironclad CSS Charleston, which operated in defense of Charleston, South Carolina, during 1863–1865. At the end of the Civil War, Brown took up farming in Mississippi and later moved to Texas.
- He died at Corsicana, Texas, and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery. The Sons of Confederate Veterans awarded their Confederate Medal of Honor, started in 1977, to Brown for his distinguished service.
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Author: From a photo by W. Kurtz (credit found in the table of contents). A list of artists and engravers can be found on p. 23 of the PDF.
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From p. 599 of the 1887 book 'Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers, based upon “the Century War Series"', volume 3. Uploaded by the British Library to Flickr here. Cropped.
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