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Harvey Brown (officer)
Harvey Brown (September 6, 1795 – March 31, 1874) was an American military officer who fought in the Black Hawk and Seminole Wars, the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War. He was also in command of military forces in New York City and later assisted in putting down the New York Draft Riots in 1863. His son Harvey E. Brown, Jr. also had a prominent military career as a surgeon and later historian of the U.S. Army Medical Department.
==Early life and career==
Harvey E. Brown was born in Bridgetown (part of present-day Rahway, New Jersey). He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York on July 24, 1818,〔Adams, Charles Kendall, ed. "Harvey Brown." Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia. 4th ed. Vol. I. New York: A.J. Johnson Company, 1894. 800+〕 as a second lieutenant of light artillery.〔Powell, William H. ''List of Officers of the Army of the United States from 1779 to 1900''. New York: L.R. Hammersly & Co., 1900. (pg. 206)〕 He spent the first years of his military career on garrison duty in Boston, Massachusetts and New London, Connecticut as well as commissary duty in St. Augustine, Florida. Upon the reorganization of the U.S. Army in 1821, Brown was assigned to the 1st United States Artillery and was officially promoted to first lieutenant on August 28, 1821. From 1824 to 1825, he served as an aide-de-camp to Major General Jacob Brown, then commanding general of the U.S. Army, and was assigned to quartermaster duty for three years. In 1831, Brown was made a captain〔Johnson, Rossiter and John Howard Brown, ed. "Harvey Brown." ''The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans''. Vol. I. Boston: The Biographical Society, 1904. 440+〕 and participated in the Black Hawk War the following year.〔 Brown also took part in the Second Seminole War as a lieutenant colonel, participating in the Battle of Wahoo Swamp, and was brevetted a major for "gallant conduct" on November 21, 1836.〔 Between 1839 and 1841, he suppressed a series of disputes on the United States-Canadian border.〔
During the Mexican-American War, Brown served as a major under Generals Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott. He won distinction at the battles of Monterrey, Cerro Gordo, Contreras, and the Gate of Belén during the fall of Mexico City, brevetted a lieutenant colonel and colonel in the last two engagements respectively.〔 Involved with military recruitment from 1848 to 1852,〔 he fought in the Third Seminole War and remained in Florida until 1857.〔 Brown served in various duties and was Inspector of Artillery prior to the American Civil War.〔"Harvey Brown." New International Encyclopedia. 2nd ed. Vol. IV. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1914. 35+〕
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