TIFFANY CIVIL WAR OHIO VETERAN VOLUNTEER’S MEDAL OF SERGEANT AND SECOND LIEUTENANT JOSIAH BROWN, 1st OHIO LIGHT ARTILLERY

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These bronze medals were authorized by the State of Ohio specifically for veteran volunteers, those soldiers from the state who had reenlisted for an additional term of service. Some 20,000 were ordered from Tiffany and seem to have been distributed in the summer of 1866 either by mail or in person at Columbus. Thes have a floral decorated top pinback bar with an entwined “US” below the lower edge, from which a short link suspends the round planchet showing Lady Liberty, carrying a Liberty Cap on a pole in the crook of one arm, with an eagle with raised wings behind her on one side and a bound sheaf of wheat with sickle on the other, placing a crown of victory on the head of a soldier, who holds his musket in one hand and his cap in the other, and bows his head slightly to receive it as he mounts two steps up to her platform. In the far background at left are Sibley army tents and flag on a flagpole. The wheat clearly refers to peaceful pursuits he had left behind and the tents to his military service. The dates “1861-1865” are on the side on the platform.

The other side has a raised wreath surrounding raised letters of the presentation with blanks spaces below them on which the soldier’s name and unit have been engraved: THE STATE OF OHIO TO / J. BROWN / VETERAN / Co. D 1st REGT. / OHIO VOLUNTEER / Lt. ARTY. The “TIFFANY” company marking is in small, raised letters at lower left.

The condition is very good. These medals are noted as only surviving in pieces in many cases. The medal still has its red, white and blue ribbed silk ribbon, showing good color with just some small wear spots at bottom. The medal shows good bronze tones with a couple of slight rubs at left of the soldier and over Liberty’s raised arm on one side, and on the other side above and between the lines of raised letters where the recipient’s name and unit were engraved.

Born in 1838 Josiah Brown was a cabinet maker in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, when he enlisted at age 30 as a sergeant 9/5/1861 to serve three years in Battery D, 1st Ohio Light Artillery. He reenlisted as a veteran and on 5/9/64 was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant of Battery E, serving with it to the end of the war, resigning on 6/13/65, with Battery E having officially mustered out July 10 and his old Battery D mustering out July 15.

The battery was extremely active. Dyer lists the battery’s service during Brown’s time with it as follows: Moved to Mt. Sterling, Ky., October 1–10. Skirmish at West Liberty, Ky., October 23, 1861. Nelson's Expedition up the Big Sandy October 23-November 17. Ivy Creek November 7, Ivy Mountain November 8. Moved to Louisville, Ky., November 17–25; thence to Munfordville, Ky., November 28–29. Moved to Nashville, Tenn., February 13–25, 1862. Occupation of Nashville February 25. Moved to Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., March 18-April 6. Battle of Shiloh, April 7. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. Occupation of Corinth May 30. Pursuit to Booneville October 31-June 12. Buell's Campaign in northern Alabama and middle Tennessee until August. March to Lebanon, thence to Mumfordville, Ky., August 23-September 6. Siege of Mumfordsville September 14–17.

At Mumfordsville, where the Union defense initially inflicted a punishing repulse to Confederate attacks, Brown was among the men of two sections of the battery taken prisoner in the garrison’s ultimate surrender. They were paroled, and exchanged to return to service in January 1863, reorganizing at Columbus. Dyer picks up their service from that point as: Ordered to Lexington, Ky., thence to Mt. Vernon, Ky., April 4–18. Saunder's Raid into eastern Tennessee June 14–24, Knoxville June 19–20. Strawberry Plains June 20. Powder Springs, Ga., June 21. Burnside's Campaign in eastern Tennessee August 16-October 17. Expedition to Cumberland Gap September 3–7. Operations about Cumberland Gap September 7–10. Knoxville Campaign November 4-December 23. Siege of Knoxville November 17-December 4.

Brown reenlisted as a veteran with other men of the battery in January 1864 and would have returned to the front after a veteran furlough. At the beginning of the Atlanta Campaign he was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant as of May 9 and transferred to Battery E. This battery was doing garrison duty at Bridgeport, AL, where it remained until July 1864, when it was transferred to Nashville, taking part in the Battle of Nashville, December 15-16, 1864. It officially mustered out July 10, 1865, with Brown resigning three days later.

He returned home to his work as a cabinet maker in Cuyahoga Falls, where he was a member of Eadle Post G.A.R., and lived the rest of his life, dying at age 91 in 1929 in the house next door to the one in which he was born, and the last member of Battery D.  [sr][ph:L]

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