Brig. General Egbert Benson Brown, (USA)

Brigadier General Egbert Benson Brown

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Civil War Union Brigadier General. He was the son of General Joseph White Brown and Cornelia Tryon. He married Mary Sarah Davidson on October 13, 1845, in Saint Louis, Missouri. He was elected mayor of Toledo, Ohio, in 1852 but resigned the same year. He was a railroad manager in support of the Union when he was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the 7th Missouri Volunteer Infantry on August 21, 1861.

He was instrumental in saving the city of St. Louis, Missouri from falling into the hands of the Confederates and was appointed Brigadier General commander of the Missouri volunteer militia on May 10, 1862. On November 29, 1862, he was commissioned as a Brigadier General of US Volunteers. In the Battle of Springfield on January 8, 1863, he was severely wounded but continued to lead his troops to victory. For his actions at Springfield, he was brevetted Brigadier General.

He served through the war, mainly in Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas. At the October 23, 1864 Battle of Westport, Missouri, while commanding a brigade of cavalry, he ran afoul with division commander Major General Alfred Pleasonton, who had him arrested and relieved of his duties for allegedly failing to obey General Pleasonton's attack order. He sat without a command until January 1865, when he was appointed commander of the District of Rolla. He served through the end of the war and left the Army with one shoulder totally disabled and a bullet in his hip in.

After the war, he served as a United States pension agent at St. Louis from 1866-1868.