Co H 63rd Indiana Infantry

Brown, Jeremiah M., Residence: Covington; Mustered in August 20, 1862; Killed at Lost Mountain, June 16, '64.

- Indiana Adjutant General Report

The name J. M. Brin, was on the original grave marker, is not listed in CWSS. There are Brin's in CWSS, but none in regiments that served in the Kennesaw area.

In original Burial Register (handwritten):

Brin, J. M., 68th Ind, June 17, 1864, H (342) 8702, Originally buried at Kennesaw Mt.

Listed in Roll of Honor, Vol. XXIII, page 59, as B----, J.M., 68th Indiana. Died June 17, 1864. Originally buried on Pine Mountain battlefield, Ga.

Originally buried in a group of 9 graves in a hospital graveyard 3.5 miles west of Pine Mt. - David M. Long, J.M. Brown, J.Q.A. McNutt, Wm Boulds, Unknown, Isaac Hicks, Unknown Co B 100 OVI, Geo. W. Hempstead, Unknown.

Three graves together (H-8702, H-8703, H-8704) were identified in the Burial Register as those of men of the 68th Indiana. However, the 68th IND was not in the vicinity of Gilgal Church in June of 1864. The men's names were also incorrect: Brin is Brown, Nutt is McNutt, W. B. is William Boulds.

Triangulating different sources puts these men in the 63rd Indiana which did lose 5 men killed and 11 wounded during the Battle of Gilgal Church according to the OR. Five buried at MNC: Jeremiah M. Brin/Brown (H8702), John Q A Nutt/McNutt (H8703), William Boulds (H8704), James Penner (H8748), John P. Jack (H8507). The 3 men buried near each other were re-interred from a field hospital graveyard located 3.5 miles west of Pine Mt. J Jack is buried in H8507 not far away from the other 63rd IND soldiers but he was originally buried where he fell near Burnt Hickory Rd.

In August 2008, the VA received sufficient proof of the correct name and replaced the grave marker.

H 8702 is located between:

David Long, 100th Ohio, H 8701

JQA (Mc)Nutt, 63rd Ind Co D, H 8703

Both of whom were in the 23d Army Corps, 3d Division.

From History of Fountain County, Indiana:

Crossing the Etowah river and Pumkin [sic] Vine creek, it moved forward and went into an intrenched position on the Dallas line on the 26th, behind which the 63d lay, under fire of three batteries (the skirmish line being constantly and hotly engaged), until relieved on June 1. Its loss at this place was sixteen wounded.

After this it lay in line of battle from June 3 to June 6, behind works of its own construction, losing one killed and one wounded. It was then held in reserve until the 15th, when it was placed in the front line near Lost Mountain, losing six killed and eight wounded. On the 17th it moved forward to the Kenesaw line, under a brisk fire, but without loss.

Found description of his fatal injury. 07/31/07

"Case 290. — Private J. M. Brown, Co. H, 63d Indiana, was wounded on June 16, 1864, in the attack of the Twenty-third Corps upon the earthworks at Lost Mountain, near Marietta, Georgia. A conoidal musket ball struck his right thigh and shattered the upper extremity of the femur, fissures extending through the trochanter major. He was conveyed to the field hospital of the Twenty-third Corps, and on June 17th, about fourteen hours after the reception of the injury, he was placed under the influence of chloroform, and after a careful examination of the injury, it was decided to amputate at, the hip joint. The operation was performed by Surgeon Edward Shippen, U. S. V. ... Comparatively little blood was lost, but the patient succumbed to the shock of the operation and died upon the operating table very soon after the completion of the disarticulation.'' -- The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Part III, Volume II. (3rd Surgical volume) by U. S. Army Surgeon General's Office, 1883.

He married Susannah Brown 28 Aug 1843 in Fountain County, Indiana. Widow, Susannah / Susana Brown, sons, Andrew J, Simon, and John P, moved to Benton Co Indiana by 1870.

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H-8703 H-8701