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{{Infobox military person
|name=Egbert Benson Brown
|birth_date= {{birth date|1816|10|4}}
|death_date= {{death date and age|1902|2|11|1816|10|4}}
|birth_place=[[Brownsville, New York|Brownsville]], [[New York (state)|New York]]
|death_place=[[West Plains, Missouri|West Plains]], [[Missouri]]
|placeofburial= Kinder Cemetery, [[Cuba, Missouri]]
|placeofburial_label= Place of burial
|image= egbertbrown.jpg
|caption=Brig. Gen. Egbert B. Brown
|nickname=
|allegiance= {{flagicon|USA|1865}} [[United States of America]]<br/>[[Union (American Civil War)|Union]]
|branch= [[United States Army]]<br/>[[Union Army]]
|serviceyears=1861&ndash;1865
|rank=[[File:Union Army brigadier general rank insignia.svg|35px]] [[Brigadier general (United States)|Brigadier General]]
|commands= District of Central Missouri<br/>District of Rolla
|unit=
|battles=[[American Civil War]]<br/>
*[[Second Battle of Springfield]]
*[[Shelby's Raid (1863)]]
*[[Battle of Westport]]
|awards=
|laterwork=
}}
'''Egbert Benson Brown''' (October 4, 1816 &ndash; February 11, 1902) was a [[Union Army|Union]] [[General officer|general]] in the [[Trans-Mississippi Department|Trans-Mississippi Theater]] of the [[American Civil War]].
==Early life and education==
Egbert Brown was born in [[Brownsville, New York]], and as a young man sailed on a whaler before settling in [[Toledo, Ohio]], in the early 1840s.  He was a respected grain dealer and built the first steam elevator in town.  After successively working his way to Mayor of Toledo in 1852, he moved to [[St. Louis, Missouri]], in 1852 and engaged in the railroad business.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Political Graveyard: Mayors and Postmasters of Toledo, Ohio|url=https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/toledo.html|access-date=2021-04-21|website=politicalgraveyard.com}}</ref>
==Civil War==
In August 1861, Brown was commissioned as the [[Lieutenant colonel (United States)|lieutenant colonel]] of the 7th Missouri Volunteer Infantry Regiment.  He resigned this position in May 1862 to become a [[brigadier general (United States)|brigadier general]] of the [[Missouri State Militia (Union)]]. He was appointed as a brigadier general of U.S. volunteers to rank from November 29, 1862.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.civilwarvirtualmuseum.org/1863-1865/marmadukes-raid-shelbys-raid/e-b-brown.php|title=Marmaduke's Raid & Shelby's Raid|website=Civil War virtual Museum|access-date=October 9, 2018}}</ref>
Brown's duties primarily involved suppressing [[Confederate States Army|Confederate]] [[guerrilla]]s and opposing raids from [[Arkansas]] and the [[Indian Territory]]. Among the high points of his career were two victories over [[Joseph Shelby]], at the [[Battle of Springfield II|Second Battle of Springfield]] (1863)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Community and Conflict » Archive » Battle of Springfield|url=https://ozarkscivilwar.org/archives/345|access-date=2020-09-25|language=en-US}}</ref> during Marmaduke's first raid, and at [[Marshall, Missouri]], during [[Shelby's Raid (1863)|Shelby's Great Raid]] of 1863.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Battle of Marshall {{!}} Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1854-1865|url=https://civilwaronthewesternborder.org/timeline/battle-marshall|access-date=2020-09-25|website=civilwaronthewesternborder.org}}</ref>  Brown was severely wounded in the shoulder at Springfield and lost the use of an arm. He commanded the District of Central Missouri during 1863 and through 1864.
Although successful in many engagements, Brown was criticized by some for lack of vigor. This came to a head during [[Price's Raid|Sterling Price's 1864 raid]] of Missouri. At the [[Battle of Westport]], Union [[Major general (United States)|Maj. Gen.]] [[Alfred Pleasonton]] relieved Brown of command and arrested him for failing to promptly obey an order to attack. Brown then assumed command of the District of Rolla in January 1865 until the end of the war.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Battle Person Detail - The Civil War (U.S. National Park Service)|url=https://www.nps.gov/subjects/civilwar/search-battles-person-detail.htm|access-date=2020-09-25|website=www.nps.gov|language=en}}</ref>
==Post-war==
Brown was the United States pension agent in St. Louis from 1866 to 1868.  He resigned to operate a farm in [[Illinois]].  He died in the home of a granddaughter at [[West Plains, Missouri]], on February 11, 1902, and was buried next to his wife in [[Cuba, Missouri]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=2003-10-04|title=Egbert Brown (Crawford County, MO)|pages=5|work=Baxter Bulletin|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19874055/egbert-brown-crawford-county-mo/|access-date=2021-04-20}}</ref>
==See also==
{{Portal|Biography|American Civil War}}
*[[List of American Civil War generals (Union)]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==Sources==
* Warner, Ezra, ''Generals in Blue'', [[Louisiana State University Press]], 1964/2002.
==External links==
* Denny, James M., [https://web.archive.org/web/20080107113142/http://mmcwrt.missouri.org/2001/default0112.htm "The Battle of Marshall"]
* {{Find a Grave | 5894232 }}
* [http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/u?/jtx,474 photo]
{{Mayors of Toledo, Ohio}}
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