JOHN BROWN -- Co. G 153rd INFANTRYJOHN BROWN -- Co. I 153rd INFANTRYTHREE JOHN BROWNS IN THE 153rd INFANTRY -- one each in Companies F, Gand I. Two of them enlisted in the late summer of 1862 in ClintonCounty, one enlisted in Mooers and was assigned to Captain GeorgeMcLaughlin's Company G. The other enlisted in Champlain and was musteredinto Company I under the command of Captain Davis Rich.After organizing in Fonda, NY, the regiment left for Washington inmid-October and until February of 1864, performed police and guard dutyin Alexandria and the capital. They sailed to Louisiana to take part inthe Red River Campaign but were only there until May when they returnedto Washington.The 153rd took part in the Defenses of Washington when General JubalEarly attacked from Maryland on its western border, and once the attackswere quelled, were ordered to the Shenandoah Valley. While in theValley, John Brown from Company I was wounded in action at Cedar Creekon October 19, 1864, and was sent to hospital for a few weeks. When hewas released, he was promoted to sergeant at the end of November.They remained in the Shenandoah Valley through the winter and then wentback to the capital for the Grand Review of the Armies at the end ofMay. Their last duties were in Savannah, GA, where John from Company Ibecame ill and was sent to hospital in Philadelphia. He was dischargedfor disability on September 7, 1865, from Chestnut Hill Hospital. Hedied in Minnesota in 1902.The John Brown who was in Company G remained with the 153rd and wasmustered out in Savannah in October 1865. He returned to Clinton Countyand farmed in the Churubusco area until he died in 1903 and was buriedin the Immaculate Heart of Mary Cemetery in Churubusco.
