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Private Robert Brown was one of twenty men cited for personal valor in the fighting in and around Chattanooga, Tennessee, November 24 & 25, 1863. On November 24, the day before the battle at Missionary Ridge where fifteen men earned Medals of Honor, Private Brown's company advanced toward Orchard Knob where they rested until the following day. On the following afternoon his company was ordered to take the rifle pits at the foot of the ridge, and advanced until they were met by a hail of fire near the crest of the ridge. As the company fought their way to the top of the ridge, Private Brown spied a Confederate color bearer and ignored the fusillade around him to rush to the enemy and demand his surrender, taking him prisoner along with the colors of the 9th Mississippi Infantry (Confederate States of America). |
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