| 词条 | Benjamin Brown (Medal of Honor) |
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|name=Benjamin Brown |birth_date= 1859 |death_date= September 5 {{Death year and age|1910|1859}} |birth_place= Spotsylvania County, Virginia |death_place= Washington, D.C. |placeofburial= United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery Washington, D.C. |placeofburial_label= Place of burial |image= |caption=Benjamin Brown in his Army Uniform |nickname= |allegiance=United States of America |branch=United States Army |serviceyears= |rank=Sergeant |commands= |unit=24th Infantry Regiment |battles=American Indian Wars |awards=Medal of Honor |laterwork= }} Benjamin Brown (1859 – September 5, 1910) was a Buffalo Soldier in the United States Army and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Indian Wars of the western United States. CareerOn May 11, 1889, Brown was serving as a Sergeant in Company C of the 24th Infantry Regiment when his unit was involved in an engagement with robbers during the Wham Paymaster Robbery. For his actions during the engagement, Brown was awarded the Medal of Honor a year later, on February 19, 1890. Brown was an expert rifleman and was ranked fifty-fourth in the entire U.S. Army in 1904.[1] He was forced to retire in 1904 after being disabled by a stroke.[2] Brown died in 1910 and was buried at the United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery in Washington, D.C.. Medal of Honor citationRank and organization: Sergeant, Company C, 24th U.S. Infantry. Place and date: Arizona, May 11, 1889. Entered service at: ------. Birth: Spotsylvania County, Va. Date of issue: February 19, 1890. Citation:Although shot in the abdomen, in a fight between a paymaster's escort and robbers, did not leave the field until again wounded through both arms.[3] See also{{Portal|United States Army|Biography}}
References1. ^{{cite book|last=Schubert|first=Frank N.|title=Black Valor: Buffalo Soldiers and the Medal of Honor, 1870-1898|publisher=Scholarly Resources Inc.|authorlink=Frank N. Schubert|p=100|date=1997|isbn=9780842025867}} 2. ^[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7173952 Find a Grave] 3. ^{{Cite web |publisher = United States Army Center of Military History |title = Indian War Period Medal of Honor recipients |work = Medal of Honor citations |date = April 19, 2005 |url = http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/indianwars.html |accessdate = January 15, 2007}} External links
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