Potomac Army
Veteran Is Dead

Hiram Brownell, Shot at
Fredericksburg in '62,
Dies Here.

Hiram Brownell, 95 who once was left as dead on a blood-soaked Virginia battlefield more than 70 years ago, and later rode the Western ranges as a cowboy, died Saturday in Mount Alto Veterans Hospital.

Mr. Brownell has been under hospital care only during the past year and a half and previously had been an active travelers between his home in Westerfield, Pa., where Masonic funeral services will be held tomorrow and the National Soldiers' Home in Virginia. Burial will be in the family cemetery near Sabinsville.

Born in Hornell, N.Y. in 1842, he enlisted at 19 in the New York State Infantry. He was attached to the Army of the Potomac and took part in many of the major battles of the Civil War, including the Peninsula Campaign, the Seven Days, the Second Battle of Bull Run and Antietam.

Casualty at Fredericksburg.
A bursting shell in the Fredericksburg offensive seriously wounded him in the hip and he was left as dead on the battlefield, facing the famous stone wall. Late that night he was found, half dead from loss of blood by prowling members of the burial corps. During his entire life he suffered from the effects of the wound.

At the expiration of his enlistment he was honorably discharged from the Army and a few years later went West into wild, sparsely settled Kansas and New Mexico. There he engaged in the varying occupations of hotel work and railroad construction, and later as a cow-puncher, rode the ranges for many years.

Came Back East.
Grasshoppers, droughts and cyclones, causing repeated crop failure on the farm which he had purchased on the present site of Great Bend, Kans., caused him to return to the East in 1882, eventually locating near Westerfield, where he married and made his home for the last 40 years of his life.

He is survived by three sons, James V. and Robert O. Brownell of this city, branch manager of the Underwood Elliott Fisher Co. and lawyer respectfully and Henry L. Brownell of Dubois, Pa.

Published in The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. Monday, 5 Jul 1937, p. A10, col. 3

Transcribed by Marie

Wellsboro Agitator – July 14, 1937
HIRAM BROWNELL.

Hiram Brownell, aged 95 years, civil war veteran, died at the Mt Alto Veterans Hospital, In Washington, D. C., July 3.

His home was in Westfield. Mr. Brownell was born in Hornell January 22, 1842.

At the age of 19 he enlisted as a volunteer in the 13th New York Infantry.

He was attached to the Army of the Potomac and took part in many of the major engagements of the civil war. At the expiration of his term of enlistment he was honorably discharged. A few years later he went to Kansas and New Mexico.

He engaged in hotel work, then railroad construction and later, as a ranch hand. He bought a farm at Great Bend, Kansas, and he returned east in 1882, locating near Westfield where he married and made his home for nearly 40 years.

He is survived by three sons, Henry L., of Dubois; James V., and Robert 0., of Washington, D. C.

Transcribed by Paulette Johnston B.